ISic003153: Fragment of a Latin inscription recording building works

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
ISic003153
Language
Latin
Text type
building
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

Physical description

Support

Description
A fragment of a marble slab, broken on all sides, and heavily weathered / eroded on the lower left of the front face
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 20 cmwidth: 26 cmdepth: 3 cm

Inscription

Layout
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Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 632
Autopsy
sala VII.276, mag. sup.
Map

Date

Probably 164—166 CE (AD 164 – AD 166)
Evidence
No data

Text type

building

commentary

One of two fragments (the other is ISic001664), similar in palaeography and material, which may or may not be part of a single text (commonly edited as such), and which may or may not in turn be further fragments of the letter of Iulius Paternus (ISic000308). The fragments were considered by Mommsen and others (e.g. Manganaro 1989) to be part of the letter of Iulius Paternus of CIL 10.7024.i (ISic000308), published by Mommsen as 10.7024.ii and iii. However Manganaro (1959), and more recently Korhonen (2004), consider these two frr. to be part of a separate but contextually similar inscription, recording sums of money and building works linked to the port, and so probably also by Iulius Paternus, or under him. Korhonen correctly observes that it is not necessary that the two fragments CIL 10.7024.ii (this text) and iii (ISic001664) come from a single text; hence they are published separately here. Note that Manganaro 1989 reported the smallest fragment, ISic001664, to be lost (since rediscovered in the Museo Civico).

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
1/19/2021