ISic003202: Fragment of an honorific inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2023-05-09
ID
ISic003202
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Prado from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Part of a marble plaque, composed of 6 joining fragments; broken off on all sides.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Object condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 33 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout
Parts of four lines from the middle of a longer text
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Lines 2-4: 70mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20-25mm
Interlineation line 2 to 4: 30mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Centuripae
Provenance found
Found by Libertini during the 1950–1951 excavations in the area of the so-called 'Building of the Augustales', near the former Barbagallo Mill, in the Vallata Difesa.
Map

Current location

Place
Centuripe, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe , KA0862 + KA864 + KA868
Autopsy
Prado, 2023-05-09
Map

Date

2nd century CE (AD 101 - AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

Both Libertini and Manganaro suggested reading Legio Secunda Traiana in the fourth line, but a position such as 'curator viae Traianae' is at least equally possible.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
10/13/2025