ISic001683: Fragment of monumental Latin text

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001683
Language: Latin
Text type: building
Object type: brick
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text from Rizza in NSA / photograph in NSA

Physical description

Support

Description: A rectangular brick, broken on the lower part
Object type: brick
Material: clay
Condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: 24 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 11 cm

Inscription

Layout

A single monumental letter filling the face of the brick

Text condition

incomplete

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 200mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Centuripae
Provenance found: Found during repair works to via Traiano, in 'room c' of a structure identified as remains of imperial-era bath-building, between via Traiano and via Adriano in Centuripe
Map

Current location

Place: Centuripe, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe
Autopsy: No autopsy
Map

Date

Rizza dates the structure as a whole to the 2nd century CE (AD 101 – AD 200)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

building

commentary

The single letter, although on brick is clearly of fine, high imperial monumental form, and is presumably to be associated with the bath building in which it was found, and so most likely a building inscription associated with the construction.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

6/15/2021