ISic002984: I.Sicily inscription 002984

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic002984
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based upon photograph;
  • line.1: Manganaro: TI[---]; stone shows traces of cross stroke to the vertical
  • line.3: Manganaro: Tettia L(uci)[---f(ilia)]
  • line.4: Manganaro: Sacerd[os publ(ica)(?)]
  • line.5: Manganaro: Cereris [Aug(ustae) (?)]
  • line.6: Manganaro: mater l(oco) [d(ato) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)]; traces on stone not clearly compatible with L·

Physical description

Support

Description
No data
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 31 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 3.3 cm

Inscription

Layout
A marble plaque, broken on the right, with the face bearing the relief form of a tabula ansata, within which are inscribed six lines of Latin letters
Text condition
legible
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Clear v-cut letters, relatively short and broad, with modest serifs. Cross-strokes are faint, width of letters somewhat uneven; C, V, M notably broad; M has four sloping, full-length strokes; R is slightly open with extended tail; triangular interpuncts.

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

Provenance

Place of origin
Enna
Provenance found
'in localita Porto Salvo, non lungi dalla torre di Federico II' during military works Nov. 1942

Current location

Place
Enna, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Varisano
Autopsy
On display.
Map

Date

Julio-Claudian (Manganaro) (AD 14 - AD 68)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/8/2021