ISic003154: Dedication from the city of Laodicea
- ID
- ISic003154
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- The text is based on Korhonen with the suggestions of M. Kajava.;
- line.1: Instead of ἡ πόλις, also ὁ δῆμος is possible according to Korhonen;
- πρὸς θαλάσσηι or ἐπὶ τῆι θαλάσσηι are both possible
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Upper right fragment of a marble plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 14 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: 0.5-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 20-24mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 295
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Later 1st century BCE or 1st century CE (Augustan or later) (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This inscription is an honorific inscription from the city of Laodicea by the sea, probably addressed to an inhabitant of the city or to a Roman citizen who had links with Catania. Other honorific inscriptions dedicated by other cities are not attested in Catania. The structure of the text is similar to other honorary inscriptions by Laodicea, such as IK Knidos 58, 94 (in Cnidos), IK Ephesos 614 (in Ephesus), IG II2 3299 (in Athens), in which the city has the designation ἡ πόλις Ἰουλιέων τῶν καὶ Λαοδικέων τῶν πρὸς θαλάσσῃ τῆς ἱερᾶς καὶ ἀσύλου αὐτονόμου: from the middle of the 1st century BCE, Laodicea had acquired the attribute of Iulia. Kajava (2005-2006) proposes to indicate the dedicatee in Cn. Domitius Corbulo, imperial legate in Syria from 60 to 63 CE, or in his daughter Domitia Corbula, wife of Domitian, who owned land in Catania (CIL 6.2466, 10.1088* 284 = ISic003250): in the latter case it is likely that the honorary inscription was dedicated after her marriage to Domitian (70 CE) or after the emperor’s accession to the throne (81 CE).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645490
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316201
- 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 2005.0671
- « 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 2004.0643
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0897
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 27
- Kalle Korhonen, «La cultura epigrafica della colonia di Catina nell’alto impero», in Colonie romane nel mondo greco, a c. di G. Salmeri, A. Raggi, e A. Baroni, Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica separata 3 (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2004), 233–54, at 240
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022