ISic003590: Honours for an emperor

Photo J.Prag courtesy Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Messina
ID
ISic003590
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy and study for edition of 2017

Physical description

Support

Description
13 joining fragments of a slab of off-white marble (no veining). Height 62.5 cm; width 47.5 cm; depth 2cm (top left), 2.3cm (top right), c.3 cm (base). Intact left, right and at base, but the upper portion is missing, as is one fragment from within the body of the surviving section. Traces of a line of mortar following a line parallel to the edge of the stone are preserved on the face, suggesting that it was at some point subsequently fixed face inwards to another surface, implying subsequent re-use.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 62.5 cm, width: 47.5 cm, depth: 2-3 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of three lines of Latin text are preserved, together with guide-lines top and bottom of each line. A further three guide lines are preserved below the last line of the text, but with no traces of letters.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 60mm
Line 2: 42-43mm
Line 3: 35mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin
Halaesa
Provenance found
From the excavations of the agora

Current location

Place
Halaesa, Italy
Repository
Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , 30605
Autopsy
On display in the lapidarium on site
Map

Date

3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)
Evidence
context

Text type

honorific

commentary

It is reasonable to assume that the full titulature of one of the third-century emperors is lost from the first part of the stone, as exemplified by ISic003586, ISic003587, ISic003588. The use of the formula res publica Halaesinorum is also found inISic003587 (for Traianus Decius), and the presence of D.D. in this text might encourage its restoration at the end of that text. This is not the lower part of ISic003588 (to Volusianus) since both the stone and the lettering are different.

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions
  • 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.31 Zotero FAIR

Citation and editorial status

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