ISic003459: Inscription recording building work by Publius Stertinius Threptus

Photo R.J.A. Wilson
ID
ISic003459
Language
Latin
Text type
building
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Silvestrini 2014

Physical description

Support

Description
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Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
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Dimensions
height: 174 cm, width: 65-66 cm, depth: 13-15 cm

Inscription

Layout
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Text condition
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Letter heights
Line 1: 80mm
Line 2: 75mm
Line 3: 65mm
Lines 4-5: 70mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation: Not measuredmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lilybaeum
Provenance found
Excavated July 2010, in re-use on the decumanus maximus, Capo Boeo
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Current location

Place
Marsala, Italy
Repository
Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
Autopsy
None
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Date

Hadrianic (AD 100 – AD 150)
Evidence
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Text type

building

commentary

Silvestrini proposes that the name of the platea (a wide street, not a square, and so very probably the decumanus maximus) should be linked to the visit of the Emperor Hadrian in 125 AD. Naming of streets after an emperor in this fashion finds parallels. Other instances of platea inscriptions are known in Sicily (AE 1964.181 and AE 1964.182 both from Marsala; and AE 1997.740 from Segesta). The name implies a freedman (Silvestrini notes the significant family of Stertinii from the early C2 AD, and that perhaps they have a Sicilian origin on the basis of this text; at 223 n.63 Silvestrini speculates a link with the recently found Isis dedication from Lilybaeum (noted in Silvestrini (2011) 464 n.6), by a Rufinius, which could be cos. of 162, D. Fonteius Frontinianus L. Stertinius Rufinus.

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Citation and editorial status

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