ISic001837: Fragment of an honorific inscription mentioning Pompeia Sosia Falconilla
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Prado from autopsy, after Eck and Barbera
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of the left side of a large slab of white marble, composed of 5 joining fragments; broken off above, to the right and below.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 2 cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Proconnesian. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic fabric. ND only (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Proconnesian
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of the initial letters of four lines, consistent left margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large monumental v-cut letters with neat serifs.
- Letter heights
- Lines 2-3: 55-65mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 4: 20-30mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Date, place and circumstances of discovery are unknown, but assumed to come from the area of the 'building of the Augustales'
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe
- KA0852
- Autopsy
- Prado 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
wife of the consul of 163 CE (AD 110 - AD 200)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Francesca Prado
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/13/2025