ISic001879: Fragment of an imperial honorific(?)

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo L. Campagna 2005-03-31

ID: ISic001879
Language: Latin
Text type: Honorific
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text from photograph, following Manganaro's proposed restoration for line 2;
1: Manganaro: [civitas Tauromenit]an(orum)

Physical description

Support

Description: A fragment of a marble plaque, preserving the lower right corner, broken above and to the left
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 20 cm, width: 13.5 cm, depth: 1.5 cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: incomplete
Letter heights: Lines 1-2: 40-45mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Tauromenium
Provenance found: First recorded by Manganaro in storage at the antiquarium prior to 1964.

Current location

Place: Taormina, Italy
Repository: Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

The likely appearance of the formula "devotus numini maiestatique eius" belongs to the period between the early third and late fourth century CE (AD 200 – AD 399)

Evidence: textual-context

Text type

Honorific

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni latine e greche dal nuovo edificio termale di Taormina», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 3 (1964): 38–68, at 42 no.5 tav.XV.7

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

8/15/2024