ISic003204: I.Sicily inscription 003204
- ID
- ISic003204
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text controlled against photograph ;
- 1: Gentili: C·F·C...
- 2: Gentili: traces of three letters after SEPVL, implying TAR; Manganaro: Sepulla [- - pa-]
- 3: Gentili: TR(?)...; Manganaro: -tri [pientissimo]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large slab or block of limestone, broken across the lower and right sides.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: 90 cm, depth: 44 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Vacat at top followed by parts of three lines of Latin letters, seemingly centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 90mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations in 1949-50 along the course of the via F.S. Cavallari, apparently in re-use in the remains of the ancient road leading to the monumental Roman arch south of the amphitheatre
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica della Neapolis, Orecchio di Dionisio e Teatro Greco
- Autopsy
- Photographed by Wilson 2009 in the archaeological park near the amphitheatre.
- Map
Date
Early Augustan (Gentili) (50 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Given the form and monumentality of the stone, an honorific seems marginally more likely than a funerary text, and in turn TR... at the start of line three seems most likely to be the start of 'Tribuno militum', and not the continuation of 'patri' from the previous line as suggested by Manganaro. The shape of the final letter on line 1 seems more favourable to Manganaro's suggestion of Q than Gentili's reading of C. The Quirina tribe is well attested on Sicily. The traces in line two seem only to be resolvable as SEPVLLA and the final trace is compatible with E, to give the necessary dative ending for the cognomen, centred on the stone. Sepulla does not however seem to be otherwise attested as a cognomen. If the suggestion of tribunus militum in line 3 is plausible, this becomes a rare addition to the attested evidence for former soldiers in the coloniae of Sicily, and the stone's form and location would suggest a text from the early years of the colonia. Compare the inscriptions from Termini Imerese, ISic000094, ISic000095, ISic000096, ISic000098.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175823
- EDR: 073929
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 13900105
- 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 267 fig.6
- « 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 1953.0158
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 41 n. 202
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/29/2022