ISic001671: Fragment of a monumental Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic001671
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- line.1: Remains of a vertical at the start of the line; the final character could theoretically also be a C
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides (and with a break upper right but reattached); thickest upper right, slightly thinner at the base.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 20.6 cm, width: 28.5 cm, depth: 5.1-5.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines of text, broken off top and bottom, neither complete in height
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, legible
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: greater than 100mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 30-33mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Of uncertain provenance, first noted in the first volume of the museum inventory, compiled in 1885
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 255
- Autopsy
- Magazzino B, cassetta 16
- Map
Date
High imperial in date, 1st or earlier 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 150)- Evidence
- lettering, material-context
Text type
commentary
Part of a clearly later text, apparently recording building restoration, is on the reverse of this fragment (see ISic004360). Although the later text on the reverse was recorded and published by Orsi in 1888/1889, this original seems to have gone unpublished, although its existence, and the traces of red paint still faintly visible, was noted in the museum inventory in 1885 (it is possible that the text was already fixed to the wall for display when Orsi saw it). The text clearly comes from a monumental public inscription, given that the letters were substantially over 10 cm in height, on a high quality piece of marble, perhaps therefore belong to the early construction phases of the Augustan colonia.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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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
- 3/3/2021