ISic003202: Fragment of an honorific inscription
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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
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 33 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 2 cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Proconnesian. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric. ND only: grey, he (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Proconnesian
- Provenance
- Marmara District
- Map
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, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe
- KA0862 + KA864 + KA868
- Autopsy
- Prado, 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (CE 101 - CE 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175830
- EDR: 074061
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 13700402
- 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 (1953), 361
- « 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 (1955), 192
- Discussion
- Manganaro (1988) at 40
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/13/2025