ISic003674: Fragment of a Latin inscription

Photo J.Prag courtesy Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Messina
ID
ISic003674
Language
Latin
Text type
Unknown (honorific or dedication?)
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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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
Lettering

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
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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

Unknown (honorific or dedication?)

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
  • NSA Carettoni (1961) at 295 no.12c Zotero FAIR
  • A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 289 n.35 Zotero FAIR

Citation and editorial status

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