ISic003674: Fragment of a Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic003674
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- Unknown (honorific or dedication?)
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy and photographs;
- line.1: Carettoni: [--]RM
- line.2: Carettoni: [--]FVIR[-]; Facella: [S]EVIR
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a white marble plaque, broken top, left and below, but seemingly preserving part of the right margin. The rear is very rough and unfinished
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.4 cm, width: 17.3 cm, depth: not measured cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of two lines of Latin letters are preserved set between guidelines top and bottom.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular v-cut letters with small serifs: E has equal length bars; M has all bars off vertical and the mid-point reaches down to the line; R is closed, with the tail extending off the eye; interpunct formed in the style of a comma
- Letter heights
- Line 2: 50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 30mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- From material found in trenches L, LI and LX excavated by Carettoni in 1956, along the front of and within the west portico of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa
- Autopsy
- In storage on site
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
In line 1, the space and form of the second letter is too great to be an R (compare line 2), and must be an A; the preceding stroke is compatible with the tail of an R. As Facella 2006: 289 n.35 already observed, FVIR is implausible and the only other letter restorable from the traces is an E, which is in turn entirely plausible for the reading 'Sevir'. Given that the word appears in the nominative, a dedication by a sevir, of which there are several examples already from Halaesa (e.g. ISic000804 and ISic003576), therefore seems more likely than an honorific text. The distinctive comma-like interpunct is attested in other Halaesan inscriptions, such as ISic003572, ISic003573, and ISic003589.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 295 no.12c
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 289 n.35
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021