ISic003206: I.Sicily inscription 003206

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 2017-07-12
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 2017-07-12
ID
ISic003206
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
honorific
Object type
statue base

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Two joining fragments from a statue base, extensively damaged on all sides. Parts of each original surface are preserved, such that it is possible to estimate the overall original dimensions. Only a small portion of the lower right of the front face and its moulded right margin is preserved, together with the right face, also with vertical mouldings as borders. A substantial part of the rear face is preserved, bearing a later Latin inscription (). A single foothole is preserved on the upper face, towards the rear left corner.
Object type
statue base
Object condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 31 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 47 cm

Material

Description
Medium-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Parian-1, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian, Thasian-3, Ephesian_scritto, Ephesian_white. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype
stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Parian-1,Parian-2,Parian-3,Parian-4,Proconnesian,Thasian-3,Ephesian_scritto,Ephesian_white

Inscription

Layout
Ends of two lines of Latin letters, with uneven right margin.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Large v-cut letters of very regular shape and elegant serifs.

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Found near the lowest seats of the central part of the Roman theatre during excavation by G. Libertini in 1951. Now on display in the Civic museum.
Map

Current location

Place
Catania, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania
Autopsy
Prag 2016.10.13
Map

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

The text was only alluded to by Mazzarino, and first published by Korhonen.

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/4/2025