ISic001878: Fragment of a monumental Latin inscription

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Muscolino

Physical description

Support

Description

A slab of white limestone or marble ('pietra calcarea bianca') found probably in re-use as part of a tomb. Unclear what the state of the stone was.

Object type

plaque

Material

marble

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 39 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Single monumental letter, presumably part of a single(?) line of monumental text?

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Line 1: 115mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Tauromenium

Provenance found

Recorded by Henry Stevenson junior during his 1882 voyage to Sicily, preserved in Vat. lat. 10574 f.182r; not otherwise recorded/ observed

Current location

lost

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Muscolino not unreasonably suggests the letter could be either Greek or Latin, but the described form of a slab bearing a monumental text would seem to fit the Latin monumental context much more readily than Greek (where such texts are inscribed on the building blocks directly), and implies a monumental architraval building text, subsequently broken and re-used in a later Roman funerary context (as Muscolino also notes, most likely to be in re-use, not funerary).

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 239 G/L1

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

7/31/2024