ISic000759: I.Sicily inscription 000759

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000759
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
altar
Status
edited
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Manganaro, controlled against photograph;
  • line.1: Manganaro: [Anti]ocho

Physical description

Support

Description
A fragmentary altar made of limestone, damaged across the top and the right, intact front left and below.
Object type
altar
Material
limestone
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Text within a recessed field, surrounded by a raised border, left margin is regular and text fills the field, but the first preserved line is larger, more widely spaced.
Text condition
incomplete #text_condition, legible
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Letters are broad and well-spaced, of a wide square module, with small serifs, decreasing in height towards the bottom. V appears slightly curved and sometimes over extended; M is broad, four diagonal full length strokes.

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Enna
Provenance found
Seen by Manganaro in a collection in Enna and assumed to come from the surrounding area

Current location

Place
Enna, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
No data

Date

high imperial in date, judging by the lettering (AD 1 - AD 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

The stone has not been otherwise recorded. From the photograph, the altar appears to be of reasonably high quality, of a relatively fine-grained limestone. It is notable that it bears a painted/inked inventory number on the lower front, of 137.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
3/1/2021