ISic001896: Fragment of an architrave dedicated to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

ID
ISic001896
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
architrave
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Gualtherus ;
  • 1: Fazello: Aurelio Imperatori

Physical description

Support

Description
Part of an architrave, re-used as a step in the Church of S.Peter 'de Balneariis'; no further details recorded.
Object type
architrave
Material
stone
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cmwidth: cmdepth: cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Panhormus
Provenance found
First recorded in Fazello 1558, in use as a step in the Church of S. Peter 'de Balneariis'; seen there too, apparently, by Gualtherus, and Torremuzza; now seemingly lost.

Current location

Lost.

Date

The nomenclature in this precise form only apparently attested for Caracalla, but in principle several of those from Marcus Aurelius to Elagabalus are possible (AD 161 – AD 223)
Evidence
prosopography

Text type

honorific

commentary

As Bivona notes, Mommsen in CIL chose to unify this piece with a fragment preserved in the Palermo museum and first recorded by Torremuzza, separately from this one, and which he placed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Senatorio. There seems no obvious reason to conflate them. The report in Fazello is clearly not necessarily a full transcription, but rather a note of the existence of the piece in what is a description of the church in question. The description in Torremuzza, noting the grandness of the letters and the high quality of the piece of stone (probably marble), strongly implies that he saw the stone.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
2/8/2025