ISic000768: Dedication by a sevir to Concordia
- ID
- ISic000768
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large fragment of white marble, broken on all sides. The lower surface is crudely finished; the upper surface is smooth and preserves a hole for a fixing pin on the left.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- marble (white)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 8.5 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 21 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The epigraphic face is preserved for a width of 12.5 cm, with two lines of Latin letters filling the available field.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: ?mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated 10 September 1970, in front of room 2 of the west portico of the agora; found in contact with the pavement of the portico
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20226
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
Late 1st century CE, or 2nd century CE (AD 50 â AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The fragment is likely to have formed part of the base of a statue, a dedication by a sevir. The extent of the text to left and right cannot be established. As previous editors have noted, Augustan concord is often associated with pax (for which see ISic003576) or spes and one of those may have stood in the first part of line 1 (Portale 2009: 85 n.46). The full name of the sevir must have stood in the latter part of line 1 and/or the first part of line 2. Manganaro (1989: 190, under no.80) suggested that this could be Aulus Mevius Zethus, known from another inscription from Halaesa (ISic000767) and plausibly restored the text as: Concordiae Augustae sacrum | A(ulus) Mevius Zethus sevir Augustalis, i.e. âSacred to Augustan Concord. Aulus Mevius Zethus, sevir Augustalis (set this up)â.
The inscription was found in the same area of the portico as an acephalous statue of a female figure found in 1895 (inv. 20193; Portale 2009: 80 n.30 and 82 n.36), not dissimilar to the statue of Ceres dedicated by another sevir (ISic000804). Portale (2009: 85-87) has suggested that the inscription should be associated with the statue, which would then be a representation of Concord. The statue is dated stylistically to the early Antonine period (140s BC), about a generation earlier than the statue of Ceres. Such a date would be entirely compatible with the form of the inscription, which could be later first or second century AD (and that of Mevius Zethus could be first or second century also). The inscribed base and statue would presumably originally have stood in a niche in one of the rooms of the portico.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175722
- EDR: 075544
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9401428
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- AE at 1973.0271 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, «Epigraphica Halaesina I», Kokalos 17 (1971): 3â20, at 17 no.7 fig.1 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1988) at 47 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1989) at 190 Zotero FAIR
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su unâantica cittĂ della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 288 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, âThe Epigraphsâ, in Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium, ed. G. Scibona and G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), 25â27, at 26 ph Zotero FAIR
- Elisa Chiara Portale, «Le sculture da Alesa», in Alaisa-Halaesa. Scavi e ricerche (1970-2007), a c. di G. Scibona e G. Tigano (Messina: Sicania, 2009), 67â92, at 85-87 Zotero FAIR
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dallâagora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171â200, at 183 fig.172 Zotero FAIR
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione allâarcheologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identitĂ siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identitĂ siciliana, 2017), at no.15 Zotero FAIR
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021