ISic000805: Fragmentary latin inscription mentioning a proconsul
- ID
- ISic000805
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy (Prag)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment of a pinkish marble slab, chiselled on the rear. Part of the right margin is preserved, but the stone is broken on all other sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble (pink)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 4-4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated 9 September 1970, on the pavement near the entrance to room 2 of the west portico of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20228
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text is an honorific for an individual of proconsular rank, since the titles proconsul and clarissimus vir and the epithet optimo all appear in the dative. The curve of a letter is visible at the end of line 1 on the break (not noted by the original editor) and while this could in theory be a C, in context it must be an O (as Manganaro noted). Since there is space for no more than one more letter at the edge of the stone, this is presumably the end of a name in –idius, followed by a blank space. The traces at the start of line 3 cannot be resolved with certainty; Manganaro suggested [Halaes]ịṇị, as those responsible for the honorific, although such a phrase might be expected at the end of the text and the ethnic in the genitive plural (after e.g. res publica or similar). Manganaro also plausibly suggested that optimo was followed in the next line by civi ac patrono, i.e. ‘excellent citizen and patron’, which would make the honorand a citizen of Halaesa who had achieved high imperial office. As Scibona observed, the form of the letters (and the use of the term clarissimus vir) place this text in the third (or fourth) century.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175725
- EDR: 075547
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9401431
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- AE at 1973.0274 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona, «Epigraphica Halaesina I», Kokalos 17 (1971): 3–20, at 20 no.10 fig.3 Zotero FAIR
- Manganaro (1988) at 88 no.37 n.490 Zotero FAIR
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 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.178 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.33 Zotero FAIR
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021