ISic001692: An antiquarian 'forgery'

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
ISic001692
Language
Latin
Text type
dedication
Object type
unknown
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text as reported by Kaibel from the manuscript tradition.

Physical description

Support

Description
Text only recorded by transcription in manuscript tradition.
Object type
unknown
Material
stone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
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Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Drepanum
Provenance found
Reportedly found in 1768 during work on the Chiesa di San Pietro, Trapani

Current location

Lost (manuscript copy only)

Date

One of a set of forgeries produced in the immediate decades after the publication of Torremuzza 1769 (AD 1769 – AD 1800)
Evidence
No data

Text type

dedication

commentary

As Korhonen 2017 lucidly details, the inscription is one of a series of late 18th century local antiquarian forgeries, constructed on the basis of existing texts, principally those to be found in the 1769 first edition of the corpus of Torremuzza. Kaibel classed the entire series already as forgeries in IG XIV and provides the only modern corpus edition of this text. Korhonen 2017: 199 elucidates this, the only Latin text among them, as being derived from Jan Gruter's corpus (the 1707 posthumous second edition), specifically p.227 no.4 = CIL XIII.566 from Bordeaux, with the same 'Augusto sacrum et genio civitatis' construction.

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/7/2022