ISic000769: Honours for L. Naevius(?) Firminus Manilianus
- ID
- ISic000769
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy;
- Line.1: Manganaro: Ti. Mevio
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Four joining fragments of a slab of blue-veined marble. The rear is finished smooth. The top and bottom of the stone are lost; the text appears to be preserved to its full width, but the left and right margins of the stone have been cut back, presumably for re-use.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble (blue)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17.5 cm, width: 56 cm, depth: 1.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of four lines of latin text are preserved: only the lower part of the first line survives, and only traces of the tops of letters remain from the beginning of line four.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 65mm
- Line 2: 55mm
- Line 3: 43mm
- Line 4: incompletemm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1-2: 17-20mm
- Interlineation lines 2-3: 11-14mm
- Interlineation lines 3-4: 12-14mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated 23 September 1970, on the south side of room 6 of the west portico of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20227
- Autopsy
- 2011.06.15
- Map
Date
2nd century CE or early 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Scibona proposed reading the nomen Naevius in line 1 (the reading of Ti. Mevio... by Manganaro is not supported by the traces on the stone). As Prestianni Giallombardo has noted, the lacuna appears rather large for just two letters, but the text is notable at several points for being widely spaced (e.g. ROM and IRM in line 2, MAN in line 3) and the suggestion remains much the most plausible (Scibona’s observation that one would expect to see the edge of the D if reading Nasidio is persuasive against this). The existence of a Naevius in the Romilia tribe at Sora (CIL 10 no.5742), noted by Scibona, does not by itself provide any necessary support to the suggestion; the Romilia tribe is not otherwise attested in Sicily (Prag 2010). Neither the stone nor the form of interpunct find immediate parallels in the other material from Halaesa. The form of the text and the double cognomen suggest that the text is probably of the second or early third century AD.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175723
- EDR: 075545
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9401429
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- AE at 1973.0272 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, «Epigraphica Halaesina I», Kokalos 17 (1971): 3–20, at 17 no.8 fig.2-3 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1988) at 46 n.225 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1989) at 190 Zotero FAIR
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 212, 294 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, ‘The Epigraphs’, in Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium, ed. G. Scibona and G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), 25–27, at 27 ph Zotero FAIR
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 184 fig.177 Zotero FAIR
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.21 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