ISic001831: Fragment of a clipeus with a dedication to a Julio-Claudian Princeps
- ID
- ISic001831
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- shield
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lower central marginal fragment with a curvilinear edge, likely part of a clipeus framed by a wreath of oak leaves and acorns oriented toward the lower center. The frame is separated from the epigraphic field by a very fine chiseled groove. The surface is smoothly finished in the inscribed field, while the rear shows traces of working.
- Object type
- shield
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 2-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Part of three Latin letters: NCI
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: greater than 35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Discovered by Guido Libertini in 1925 in one of the spaces of the so-called "Edificio degli Augustales" near the former Mulino Barbagallo. The report does not clarify the exact findspot; the archaeologist merely places the fragment among other inscribed pieces discovered in the area: "un altro (scil. fragment) con una corona di foglie di lauro, scadente lavoro dei bassi tempi imperiali, ed un’epigrafe inscritta di cui rimangono le tre lettere ...NCI”
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe , KA0863
- Autopsy
- Prado 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
Late 1st century BCE - first half of the 1st century CE (5 BC – AD 54)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Dedication to a princeps, presumably of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This interpretation is supported by the find context, the form of the object, and the decoration of the frame. The fragment likely belonged to a group of portraits and dedications to members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, discovered in Vallata Difesa. The oak leaves with acorns, symbol of the corona civica, evoke Augustan propaganda. However, princeps is not part of the titulature used for Augustus in epigraphic attestations. The dedicatee may be identified as one or both sons of Julia and Agrippa, Gaius and Lucius, principes iuventutis.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Francesca Prado
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/27/2025