ISic000762: Part of a base for a dedication(?)
- ID
- ISic000762
- Status
- edited
- Language
- Latin
- Object type
- block
- Text type
- dedication
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 2: Manganaro 1989: statuam; lapis: STATVM
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large grey limestone block, the front face of which angles in towards the base. Broken at the left end, intact above, below and to the right. The rear right corner has been cut away, and there is a recessed clamp hole on the upper face towards the rear right corner. Roughly finished on all sides except the front face.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 28.2-28.8 cm, width: 64.5-72 cm, depth: 33-37.3 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.polishable.grey > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- The right end of three lines of Latin letters, seemingly originally cnetred on the stone, given the large vacats to the end of lines 1 and 3. The stone increasingly damaged to the left edge of the face. Hederae at the end of each line.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deeply v-cut letters, tending to the tall and narrow, with basic wedge seerifs at the end of strokes; some letters lean to the left, R has an extended tail, A and M slightly extended upwards beyond the apex.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 53-60mm
- Line 2: 40-54mm
- Line 3: 35-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20-23mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 25mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cosconiana medium certainty
- Provenance found
- Found c.1972 in a late antique wall in contrada Vito Soldano, c.4km west of Canicatti, area of a late Roman settlement commonly identified with Cosconiana (not Agrigento, contra Manganaro 1989); now on display in Agrigento Archaeological Museum.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo
- Autopsy
- 2018-07-17 Prag
- Map
Date
Imperial; form of M implies 2nd century or later (CE 101 - CE 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Manganaro speculates that this was a dedication to Aesculapius, but especially given that his attribution to Agrigento is incorrect, this is pure speculation. Despite the presence of damage on the surface, there is clearly no trace of the letter A so the reading 'statuam' depends upon emending the text and assuming an omission. Texts recording the restoration of a building or other object to its former state (statum) are relatively common, but 'statum dei' would be without parallel. A reference to the 'potestatum dei' (the powers of the god) might be conceivable.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175798
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100291
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1989.0345a
- E. De Miro e G. Fiorentini, «Attività della Soprintendenza alle antichità della Sicilia centro-meridionale negli anni 1968-72», Kokalos 18–19 (1973 1972): 228–50, at 247 tav.62 fig.4
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 68 n.348
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 188 no.75 fig.80
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/15/2026
- License
- Commons CC-BY 4.0