ISic000803: Dedication by a pair of seviri
- ID
- ISic000803
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two blocks of yellow, non-local sandstone (Burgio 2013: 26 n.2), surmounted by a cornice and forming the left and right ends of the upper part of a monument / statue base which originally stood against the internal rear wall of the west portico, between rooms 5 and 6.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 35 cm, width: 182 cm, depth: 68 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin letters in the field below the moulding (17.5 cm high and originally 160 cm wide)
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 45-55mm
- Line 2: 40-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa
- Autopsy
- 2011.06.15
- Map
Date
End 1st century CE, beginning 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 150)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Part of the base of the original monument remains in situ in the portico, and Burgio (2013) has reconstructed the monument in its totality. This reconstruction demonstrates that one block is missing between the two surviving blocks of the crown of the base, and that the missing block was 60 cm wide (with the same height (35 cm) and depth (47 cm across the base and 68 cm across the top with the moulding) as the other two blocks). The lacuna therefore between the two surviving parts of the text was 60 cm. In line 1, this lacuna was almost certainly filled by the word et (‘and’) and the praenomen and nomen of the second individual with the cognomen Sabinus. In line 2, the presence of a gap before and after the word seviri suggests that there were fewer, widely spaced words in line 2. Two possibilities can be suggested: either the name in the accusative of the divinity to whom the monument was dedicated, and whom the statue or statue group on top depicted (e.g. AE 1990 no.225-226, a dedication to Victoria Augusta at Iuvanum in Samnium); or else just the word Augustales, i.e. seviri Augustales (e.g. AE 2007 no.698, Huesca in Spain and AE 1981 no.345, Etruria).
The gens Caecilia is attested at Halaesa in Cicero (Verr. 2.2.23, Q. Caecilius Dio) and on the Augustan coinage (RPC I, no. 628-629, Caecilius Rufus, duumvir) and elsewhere on the island (see Facella 2006: 234 n. 87; 250; 287-288). The cognomen Himeraeus is attested at Termini Imerese (anc. Thermae Himeraeae), in I.L.Termini no.90 with p.61 ([-] Domitius A.f. Quir. Himeraeus). The cognomen Sabinus is attested in Sicily at Messina (I.Messina no.7: M. Saufeius Sabinus), Catania (CIL 10 no.7062: Crassicius Sabinus Aptitianus) and at Taormina (IG 14 no.166: Auxanon son of Sabinos).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175721
- EDR: 075543
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9401427
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- AE at 1973.0270 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, «Epigraphica Halaesina I», Kokalos 17 (1971): 3–20, at 16 no.6 tav.4.1 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1988) at 47 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 183 Zotero FAIR
- Rocco Burgio, «Architetture onorarie dell’agorà di Alesa, 1. Il monumento dei Seviri Augustales: analisi e proposta ricostruttiva», Quaderni di Archeologia, a cura dell’Università degli Studi di Messina n.s. 3 (2013): 11–45. 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