ISic003339: Honorific for the Emperor Tiberius
- ID
- ISic003339
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- line.2: Salinas 1884 reports four fragments and reads the end of line 2 as intact; the fourth fragment appears to be now lost, but the tops of both the reported P and S are still visible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular off-white marble slab, broken in three joining fragments, the lower right corner missing. The reverse is unfinished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble (white)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 15.1 cm, width: 70.2 cm, depth: 4.9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Latin text over three lines. The two letters of the third line are centred and much smaller
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 42-61mm
- Line 2: 41-43mm
- Line 3: 15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agathyrnum
- Provenance found
- Found when digging a well in or before 1882, on the farm of Filippo Cangemi, Capo d'Orlando (Casa Cangemi is marked on the 1:25000 map)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Capo d'Orlando, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Capo d'Orlando
- Autopsy
- 2006.04
- Map
Date
14—37 CE (reign of Tiberius) (AD 14 – AD 37)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This is the only known inscription from the immediate area of Capo d'Orlando (probably ancient Agathyrnum).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492390
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 34100466
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 708
- 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 162-163 = 309-310
- Umberto Spigo, Archeologia a Capo d’Orlando: studi per l’Antiquarium (Milazzo: Rebus, 2004), at 40-42 ph
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