ISic004368: Dedication to Hercules Nouritanus by Caius Fannius and the Frentrani
- ID
- ISic004368
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ampolo 2016, compared against photograph ;
- 3: Ampolo: coiraverunt
- 4: Mastino/Abrignani: [---]E M RAC EOS oves [-c.2 -] dede[runt---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24-26 cm, width: 150 cm, depth: 94 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 50mm
- Line 4: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: Not measuredmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Found in excavation in March 2008 in secondary deposition, having been re-used in antiquity on the street bordering the north-east side of the so-called 'insula romana' villa on Capo Boeo.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
c. 120—50 BCE (120 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Gaius Fannius cannot be immediately identified, but is perhaps to be connected to the family associated subsequently with Sextus Pompeius. Hercules Nuritanus is not otherwise attested. Ampolo suggests the name implies a connection with Sardinia.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
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- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2016.0622
- Carmine Ampolo, «Il culto di Ercole a Lilibeo: un nuovo documento dei rapporti tra genti e culture diverse nella Sicilia occidentale», Mare Internum. Archeologia e culture del Mediterraneo 8 (2016): 21–37, https://doi.org/10.19272/201631401002.
- Attilio Mastino e Alessandro Abrignani, «Ancora il circuito Africa, Sicilia, Sardegna, sotto il segno di Melqart-Ercole e Astarte-Venere: il fanum salutifero dedicato Hercolei Nouritano a Lilibeo», Sicilia Antiqua 18 (2021): 135–44, https://doi.org/10.19272//202103901015, at 140-141 fig. 7-8
- Paola Ruggeri, «Nel segno della dea Astarte-Venere Ericina. Cesare tra Sicilia, Africa e Sardegna, lungo l’antica rotta punica dei cultores Veneris Ericinae», in In Africa e a Roma: scritti mediterranei, 2023, 15–58, at 44-48
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Carmine Ampolo
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Carmine Ampolo
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 10/11/2022