ISic004268: Inscription naming Augustus (?)
- ID
- ISic004268
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- No data
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text according to ILipara 752 after Orsi
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Volcanic stone block, recut for modern re-use, with the lower part removed and the line of text cut in half horizontally.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- volcanic
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 155 cm, depth: 25 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Single surviving line of Latin letters, with vacat before.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 80mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 1: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Didyme
- Provenance found
- The block was first seen reused together with ISic004269 on a doorpost in the semi-destroyed house of the priest F. Belsito in Serro Belvedere (Salina), according to P. Orsi, who learned of it during a visit to the island in June 1928; it was subsequently moved to the Palazzo Comunale in 1946, before being removed and sold on the black market.
Current location
- Place
- lost, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Augustan (27 BC – AD 14)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
No data
commentary
Manganaro suggested that this was part of a single text for Tiberius, combined with ISic004269; Orsi instead considered it a separate text, this for Augustus, the other for Tiberius, but probably belonging to the same monument, and the editors of I.Lipara followed Orsi. Certainly the two texts in Orsi's drawing show considerable similarities and the fact of their re-use together likewise suggests that they belong together, but whether as one or two texts cannot be resolved.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- 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 98-99 fig. 54
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 65
- L. Bernabò Brea, M. Cavalier, e L. Campagna, Meligunìs Lipára. XII. Le iscrizioni lapidarie greche e latine delle isole eolie (Palermo: Mario Grispo Editore, 2003), at 752
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/17/2022