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
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
Status
edited
Text type
funerary
Object type
altar

Edition

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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
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description
limestone
Type > subtype
inorganic.stone > unverified

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, Sicilia
Repository
No data
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.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Citation and editorial status

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