ISic002007: Fragment of an imperial dedication
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
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Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble fragment of a monumental inscription on a plaque, right margin preserved
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
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- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
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- Text condition
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- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
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- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris
- Provenance found
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Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari
- ME28145
- Autopsy
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Date
Later C2 CE (AD 151 - AD 200)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
Manganaro proposed that this fragment formed the ends of lines 3-5 of ISic000065 in Palermo Archaeological Museum, and this attribution has generally been accepted (e.g. Zambito 2007). Fasolo 2013: 73 no.5 rejected the attribution, but his reasoning is flawed (he suggested that the presence of VA at the start of line 5 in the preserved fragments precluded the integration of the new fragment, and yet at first sight it directly supports it, only that the word division at the end of line 5 in the currently proposed restorations of the text would require minor revision). However, a more serious objection lies in the fact that the new fragment is only half as thick (3.5-3.9 cm) as the existing plaque (6.5 cm), and close study of the letter forms (which have the same height, 60-65mm in the existing plaque; 60mm in the new fragment) also suggests minor differences. It is, additionally, given that the right margin of the new plaque is preserved, extremely hard to restore ARTHI at the end of line 1 of the fragment (required at the end of line 3 of the existing text, given CI at the start of line 4), where autopsy confirms that there appears to be no trace of, or space for, the final two verticals required, and the traces preserved are more readily compatible with e.g. ARI·F or similar, unless a complex triple ligature has been employed (unlikely). The new fragment clearly comes from a very similar and contemporary text, but unless other arguments can be adduced, it should be considered part of a separate text. It is also unclear whether the stone is the same. The existing text of ISic000065 is entirely painted in red, but this is presumably antiquarian recolouring in the earlier 19th century and the absence of paint in the new fragment should not be considered an argument either way.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- 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 1989.0338c
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 162 no. 4 fig. 4
- Luca Zambito, «Intervento statale e attività urbanistica: sul ruolo dei curatores reipublicae in due epigrafi da Tindari», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 12 (2007): 103–10, at 105 and fig. 1
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 72-73 no. 5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/7/2026