ISic003300: Fragmentary Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic003300
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Korhonen 2004, checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque, preserving the upper margin, but broken on the other three sides. The rear preserves a moulding, suggesting that this is a re-used piece of stone from an architectural context originally.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 7.5 cm, width: 18.5 cm, depth: 3.7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of two lines of Latin letters preserved, running left to right across the face; only the upper parts of line 2 preserved.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35-37mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded. The fragment was seen in the Biscari collection. Mommsen suggested that it was from Rome, but as Korhonen observes, the insignificant nature of the fragment makes this unlikely, and a local, Catania, provenance is to be presumed.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- mag. sup
- Map
Date
5th — 6th century CE (Korhonen, on palaeogrpahical grounds) (AD 401 – AD 600)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285149
- EDR: 122915
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 17900204
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 06.30629.15
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.1088*413
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 209
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Alex Antoniou
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/17/2024