ISic003462: I.Sicily inscription 003462

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ID
ISic003462
Status
draft
Language
Latin
Object type
plaque
Text type
building

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Silvestrini 2014, supplements based upon ISic000481

Physical description

Support

Description
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Object type
plaque
Object condition
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Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description
compact whitish limestone with chonchoidal fracture, veins and stylolites, likely tipo scaglia (SCA, AMM) (packstone with planktonic foraminifera, sponge spiculae) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy)
Type > subtype
stone.limestone.polishable.white > calcare_bianco_tipo-scaglia, calcare_bianco_scaglia
Petrographic imagery

Inscription

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Technique
chiselled
Pigment
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Interlinear heights
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Provenance

Place of origin
Lilybaeum
Provenance found
Excavated 2002 and 5 August 2010 on decumanus maximus, Capo Boeo, Marsala

Current location

Place
Marsala, Sicilia
Repository
Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

340—350 CE (CE 201 - CE 250)
Evidence
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Text type

building

commentary

Two fragments, excavated 8 years apart; the first fragment lost shortly after discovery, and a single photo survives; second fragment preserved. Text is a close parallel to CIL 10.7200 from Thermae Selinuntiae, but records activities in building / restoring the cursus publicus by Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus alone, without Flavius Dulcitius who is also named in the other inscription. Silvestrini offers a full reconstruction of the text (upper part missing) on the basis of CIL 10.7200 = ISic000481

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
4/23/2021
License
Commons CC-BY 4.0