ISic002906: Fragmentary Latin text
- ID
- ISic002906
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro 1982 following Bernabo Brea's transcription;
- 1: Given the annotation of an interpunct after the C, this must be a praenomen, most likely in the dative, an honorific or funerary text.
- 6: Bernabo Brea: ex t(estamento)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- fragment of left side of a thin plaque of marble
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 16.5 cm, width: 9.7 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Beginnings of six lines preserved; in Bernabo Brea's transcription the left margin is irregular, suggesting the lines were centred.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Piazza Armerina
- Provenance found
- Found during works to consolidate mosaics at the villa, 1942-1944, when excavation also took place to uncover the xistus in front of the triabsidal hall, during which this fragment was found.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (?) (roman, imperial, official, tending to the 'cursive') (AD 101 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645299
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 57100044
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 253
- Giacomo Manganaro, ‘Die Villa von Piazza Armerina, Residenz des kaiserlichen Prokurators, und ein mit ihr verbundenes Emporium von Henna’, in Palast und Hütte : Beiträge zum Bauen und Wohnen im Altertum von Archäologen, Vor- und Frühgeschichtlern: Tagungsbeiträge eines Symposiums der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, veranstaltet vom 25.-30. November 1979 in Berlin, ed. D. Papenfuss and V.M. Strocka (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1982), 493–513, at 500 no.1
- R.J.A. Wilson, Piazza Armerina (London: Granada, 1983), at 93
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Alfredo Tosques
- system
- Last revision
- 4/22/2025