ISic001876: Fragmentary Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic001876
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Bivona: [---]vi(xit) a(nnis) II [---]
- 2: Bivona: [---]tas ti[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small rectangular shaped fragment of a thick white marble plaque of a very granular consistency. Seemingly cut down on all sides, although the lower edge could be original, roughly finished. The stone is opisthographic, with an earlier text on the reverse. Same support as .
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 11.5 cm, width: 17.5 cm, depth: 5.0-5.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of equal sized latin letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: greater than 35 (incomplete)mm
- Line 2: 44-46mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 13-14mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The piece was first published by Bivona in 1975-76, with no record of its original discovery (presumably Termini Imerese)
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 6
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-06, storeroom of the Museo Civico, room 1, rack 13, shelf 5.
- Map
Date
Imperial, but could also be much later? (AD 1 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bivona presents the reading of this face of this fragment (for the obverse face, see ISic000155) without discussion. Her reading cannot stand, since the final letter of line 1 is quite clearly an F and not a numeral, and the only possible interpunct stands after the A, such that the separation of the VIA into "vi(xit) a(nnis)" (an unusual splitting of the abbreviation already) is highly implausible. Similarly, the separation of letters in line 1 proposed by Bivona is arbitrary. There is no obvious restoration for the combination IF (it cannot be TF, the spacing is too narrow, compare the line below). TASTI in line 2 could be part of the phrase devotus numini maiestatique, and the very faint traces of what may be letters at the beginning and end of the line are not incompatible with this, in which case an imperial honorific of the third/fourth century CE is possible (but various verbs ending -tasti are also theoretically possible). The letter forms are somewhat untypical, and it should not be ruled out that this is a post-antique text. In any case, there is no reason to think it funerary or to have any relation to the text on the obverse, which it presumably post-dates.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285243
- EDR: 111305
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900406
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1980.0528
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 552 no.18b tav.9
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 76b
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/8/2024