ISic003579: Record of building expenses
- ID
- ISic003579
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large marble slab, broken in multiple fragments and restored. Height 76 cm; width 112.7 cm; depth 3 cm. The front carries a relief carved with a geometric design which resembles a shield. At a later date a set of five holes has been drilled through the upper part of the slab, parallel to the top edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 76 cm, width: 112.7 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- On the reverse, above the line of holes, is a Latin inscription running the width of the slab. One fragment is lost from the upper part of the text
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 65-70mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: n/amm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated in 1971, in room 7 of the west portico of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 20199
- Autopsy
- On display in antiquarium, room A1
- Map
Date
1st century CE (AD 1 – AD 100)- Evidence
- context, lettering
Text type
commentary
The symbol for sestertii is standard. The symbol for 10,000 is likewise well attested, but is not found after the first century AD and not common after the Augustan period. Hübner (Hübner, E. 1885. Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae Latinae a Caesaris Dictatoris Morte ad Aetatem Iustiniani. Berlin, at p.LXXI) offers examples, and these examples suggest that the central hasta of the number extended above the line. It is likely that the inscription continued on at least one other comparable panel, perhaps to the left, because we would expect the individual recording his (or her) generosity) to be named. A second similar panel is preserved (ME 20198, of similar dimensions and found in the same location), with a pair of shields and a spear depicted in relief on the front; it is however uninscribed. The two panels have been dated to the first century AD, and the inscription is no later than than this.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645650
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Scibona and G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), at 27 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.36 Zotero FAIR
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021