ISic003324: Two dedications to a Caesar by the Annii
- ID
- ISic003324
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small square marble base (a relatively fine off-white marble), intact on all sides, but with part of the upper rim missing on the front face. There is a recessed square depression on the top surface, which is rough-picked within. The sides are roughly finished, but front and back faces are finely finished (and inscribed)
- Object type
- base
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18.6 cm, width: 32.7 cm, depth: 25.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters centred on each of front and rear face, first line larger in both cases
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line A 1: 37-39mm
- Line A 2: 32-35mm
- Line A 3: 27-33mm
- Line B 1: 35mm
- Line B 2: 30mm
- Line B 3: 27-29mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line A1 to A2: 12mm
- Interlineation line A2 to A3: 11-13mm
- Interlineation line B1-B2: 10mm
- Interlineation line B2-B3: 10mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum
- Provenance found
- Area of bouleuterion, 1983
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo , 22522
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
Perhaps between 16 BCE and 4 CE (16 BC – AD 4)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The exact explanation for this double dedication remains uncertain. Battistoni and Rothenöfer speculate that the possibly earlier inscription of Text A could have been a dedication to Octavian as son of Caesar, but reject this as somewhat unlikely and prefer the hypothesis that both inscriptions are dedications to Caius Caesar, the grandson and adopted son of Augustus, with Text A containing an erroneous first text which fails to use the correct onomastic formula for Caius. The Annii were a significant family in Agrigento, with involvement in the sulphur industry.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645577
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- E. De Miro, «L’attivita della soprintendenza archeologica di Agrigento (Anni 1980-84)», Kokalos 30–31 (1985 1984): 453–65, at 464-465 tav.34.1
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 26, 47
- G. Pugliese Carratelli e G. Fiorentini, Agrigento, Museo Archeologico (Palermo: Edizioni Novecento, Libreria dello Stato, 1992), at 107-108 ph
- E. De Miro, «Agrigento nella prima età imperiale», in Damarato. Studi di antichitˆ classica offerti a Paola Pelagatti, a c. di I. Berlingó e et al (Milan: Electa, 2000), 380–86, at 381 fig. 6
- Filippo Battistoni and P. Rothenöfer, ‘Caesars Sohn und die Annii von Agrigent: eine wirtschaftliche Liaison?’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser. 5, 4, no. 1 (2012): 103–15.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tre iscrizioni di Agrigento. Il culto dei Caesares nipoti di Augusto e la diffusione della gens Annia», Sicilia Antiqua 10 (2013): 247–52, at 249-252 fig.2-4
- Luca Zambito, «Gli Annii agrigentini e la produzione di zolfo. Note epigrafiche su economia ed evergetismo nella Sicilia romana», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 16–17 (2014 2013): 67–82.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021