ISic003457: Dedication to Venus Equestris
- ID
- ISic003457
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- tympanum
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Silvestrini 2014
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A limestone tympanum from a small aedicola. The left and right ends of the tympanum have been sawn off at a later date (the block was re-used as a threshold in a mediaeval structure. The upper and lower cornice have been damaged. The inscription runs below the lower cornice. The framed pediment of the tympanum is empty.
- Object type
- tympanum
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 49 cm, width: 108 cm, depth: 24 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 55mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Excavated 2 February 2005 in area immediately to east of the church of S. Giovanni Battista on Capo Boeo
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , 6649
- Autopsy
- observed on display 2023, no formal autopsy
- Map
Date
39—36 BCE (on the reasonable assumption that this is the same office-holder as (39 BC – 36 BC)- Evidence
- titulature
Text type
commentary
Silvestrini 2014 plausibly suggests that this is a dedication set up by L. Plinius L.f. Rufus, legatus pro praetore of Sextus Pompeius and praetor designate for 33 BC, already attested at Lilybaeum in ILLRP 426 = ISic000007. The inscription is referenced within AE 2007.678-679, although neither lemma there concerns this text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644934
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 66800016
- 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 2014.537
- Marina Silvestrini, «Nuove epigrafi da Lilibeo», in L’Epigrafia dei porti. Atti della XVIIe recncontre sur l’épigraphie du monde romain, Aquileia, 14-16 ottobre 2010, a c. di C. Zaccaria, Antichità altoadriatiche 79 (Trieste: Editreg, 2014), 207–26, at 211-215 no.2 fig.5-6
- Enrico Caruso e Maria Grazia Griffo, a c. di, Lilibeo e il Mare. Il museo archeologico regionale di Marsala (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’identita siciliana, 2024), at 424-425, figs. 438-439
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
- 1/21/2025