ISic000801: Fragment of a public Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic000801
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific possibly building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of white marble slab, broken on all sides; finished on the reverse
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of two lines of latin letters are preserved. Substantial vacat below line 2.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The letters are neatly V-cut, of wide proportions, with minimal serifs. P is open; S has a larger upper half, leaning slightly to the right. Words are separated by a comma-like three pointed serif.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 38-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated 9 September 1970, near entrance to room 2 of west portico of the agora; now on display in the lapidarium on site.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20224
- Autopsy
- Prag 2011.06.15
- Map
Date
1st century CE (AD 1 - AD 100)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is not possible to know what the likely extent of the stone was, either to the left and right, or above and below the surviving text. The letters of line 1 are most likely to be part of a name: Caecilius and Acilius are the most common, but a number of other names of this form such as Lucilius, Maecilius, Otacilius, Pacilius, Precilius, and Racilius are also attested. Both Caecilius (ISic000803; RPC I, 628-629; Cic. Verr. 2.2.23) and Acilius (ISic000804) are attested at Halaesa. The abbreviation in line 2 is most easily resolved as restituit sua pecunia (“restored (x) at his own expense”), although this cannot be certain, and Scibona’s suggestion of inopia for the word that follows is certainly plausible (i.e. that the individual named in the first part of the inscription restored something – a building perhaps – at his/her own expense due to the lack of funds on the part of the town or another body or individual). Manganaro’s suggestion of incohavit is also possible, and there are few other alternatives beginning INC or INO.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175719
- EDR: 075541
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9401425
- 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 1973.0268
- G. Scibona, «Epigraphica Halaesina I», Kokalos 17 (1971): 3–20, at 15 no.4 fig.2
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 45-46
- G. Scibona, ‘The Epigraphs’, in Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium, ed. G. Scibona and G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), 25–27, at 26 ph
- 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 181 fig.166
- 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.23
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021