ISic004360: I.Sicily inscription 004360
- ID
- ISic004360
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- line.1: Orsi (NSA): Riam. . . .; Orsi (Taccuini): RIAMIR . The first three characters are almost certainly RIA, followed by four verticals grouped in two pairs, either or both of which would be compatible with M as in line 2, followed by two further marks slightly above the line; Orsi's suggestion is entirely plausible.
- line.2: Orsi: IOREMFACI; the top of a vertical is visible at the start of the line
- line.3: The trace of a downward right slanting stroke is visible at the upper right end of the line, compatible with V, X or Y (also noted by Orsi, Taccuini)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides (and with a break upper left but reattached); thickest upper left, slightly thinner at the base.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 20.3 cm, width: 30 cm, depth: 5.1-5.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of text, of which only the middle line is preserved to full height. Text is laid out between double guidelines.
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, legible
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 2: 70-75mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 17-23mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 25-30mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Of uncertain provenance, first noted in the first volume of the museum inventory, compiled in 1885
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 255
- Autopsy
- Magazzino B, cassetta 16
- Map
Date
later imperial (later 2nd — 4th centuries CE?) (AD 150 – AD 400)- Evidence
- lettering, material-context
Text type
commentary
This text is on the reverse of what was originally a large monumental Latin inscription of the first or second century AD (see ISic001671), and so this text is presumably secondary re-use of the stone and the later text from its form. Line 2 can reasonably be restored to suggest that this was a text recording the rebuilding or reconstruction of a structure of some sort. On that basis, the word in line 1 is perhaps most likely to be 'memoria' or 'gloria', and line 3 may contain reference to the individual responsible. The text does not appear to have been republished or discussed since Orsi. Orsi recorded it in the first of his taccuini, prior to publishing it in the NSA. Curiously, in neither case did he note the presence of a text on the reverse, which fact is recorded in the inventory (it is possible that the text was already fixed to the wall for display when he saw it?).
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 386
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p.46
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/3/2021