ISic003351: Honorific inscription for Marcus son of Publius

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ID
ISic003351
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
honorific
Object type
block
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on autopsy;
  • Line.2: Prestianni 2012: [Αἰμί]..[ον?]
  • Line.3: Prestianni 2012: .[---]

Physical description

Support

Description
A grey limestone block, damaged to varying degrees on three sides. The left margin is intact; the upper edge is lightly damaged; the right margin is lost, extensively so across the lower right corner; the lower margin may be intact at the lower left corner, but is partially abraded. The surviving part of the inscribed face is damaged across the top margin (line 1), across the upper right corner (lines 1-3), and along the bottom margin (line 6) , although showing some wear; the lower right portion is lost.
Object type
block
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 31 cm, width: 37 cm, depth: 11-12 cm

Inscription

Layout
The left side of six lines of Greek text are preserved.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-6: 25-35mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Halaesa
Provenance found
Found in 1971 in re-use in a dry-stone wall above the south corner of the west portico of the agora
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Current location

Place
Halaesa, Italy
Repository
Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20222
Autopsy
2011-06-15
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Date

2nd — 1st century BCE (200 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

Lines 1, and 4-6 can all be restored with confidence on the parallel of other similar honorific inscriptions from Halaesa (compare nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and the bronze of Nemenios no.59). These restorations in turn suggest a maximum width of 17 letters in line 1, and approximately 14-16 in lines 2 and 3. In line 2 this means up to 10 letters are lost, containing the nomen of Marcus, and in line 3 up to 5 letters, containing his cognomen, or just possibly tribus (the trace of a vertical stroke is visible after the final nu, compatible with either I or K). The nomen in line 2 has previously been restored as Αἰμίλιον, but the traces on the stone are incompatible with this: the first visible letter, which is either the third or the fourth of the name, could be be Α or Λ, but it cannot be Μ; the second appears to be either Μ or Ν, but not Ι. Both Flaminius and Caninius are possible (both attested on the island in the Republican period), but the possibilities are multiple, and no identification is possible. Although Marcus is clearly a Roman citizen (and at least a second generation Roman, since he is son of Publius), he is probably not being honoured for actions as a Roman official, since there is no room in this text for the title which this would require (the closest parallel therefore is ISic000770 for Marcus Aemilius Rho[--], a first generation Roman citizen, rather than ISic001178 for C. Vergilius Balbus, a proquaestor).

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions
  • ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 62.0658 Zotero FAIR
  • G. Scibona, ‘The Epigraphs’, in Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium, ed. G. Scibona and G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), 25–27. Zotero FAIR
  • Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo e A. Facella, «Tusa», in Bibliografia Topografica della colonizzazione greca in Italia e nelle isole tirreniche, a c. di G. Nenci e G. Vallet, vol. 21, 21 (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Ecole Francaise de Rome, 2012), 251–311, at 256 Zotero FAIR
  • Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 185 fig.179 Zotero FAIR
  • J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.5 Zotero FAIR
  • Prag (2019)

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021