ISic003349: Honorific inscription recording the colonia of Agrigentum
- ID
- ISic003349
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Silvestrini 2011
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 37 cm, width: 55 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, centred on the surviving stone which is regularly cut but re-used
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 60mm
- Line 2: 60-65mm
- Line 3: 65mm
- Interlinear heights
- : not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Found 2008.06.25 during excavation of road parallel to decumanus maximus, bordering insula III; face-down in re-use in a late-antique tomb
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
193—197 CE (AD 150 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Probably from the front of a statue base. Silvestrini argues that the text should be understood to be in the genitive, and so dependent upon e.g. 'patrono' above. The context of erection in another city makes such identification plausible / explicable (while the absence, or potential absence of a dedicant is not in itself problematic). She further notes the Severan connection with the island, and the general current of African relations and trade in this period being of relevance for the Severans, before tracing significant families in this part of Sicily in this period as a plausible exempla of the sort of person / family likely to be honoured in this way. Silvestrini would restore: [- - - - patrono] | col(oniae) Septimiae | Aug(ustae) | Agrigentinor(um).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645593
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64100252
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 2011.0436
- « 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 2016.0623
- Marina Silvestrini, «Colonia Septimia Augusta Agrigentinorum», in Scritti di storia per Mario Pani, a c. di S. Cagnazzi et al. (Bari: Edipuglia, 2011), 455–68, at ph
- Marina Silvestrini, «Colonia Septimia Augusta Agrigentinorum», Mare Internum. Archeologia e culture del Mediterraneo 8 (2016): 51–56.
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