ISic004371: Fragment of an honorific for Domitia
- ID
- ISic004371
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- Honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text as restored by Manganaro, checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Eight joining fragments of a marble plaque, preserving the upper right corner, broken to the left and below (only seven frr were seen by Manganaro). A second imperial honorific is preserved on the rear, same support as
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 48 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 100mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Manganaro in storage at the antiquarium prior to 1964.
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Domitia, as wife of Domitian, 81-96 CE (AD 81 – AD 96)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
The text is complete on the left side, presenting the beginning of the first three lines of the text. Line 3 would appear to be slightly indented; whether 'uxori', in full or abbreviated, appeared on the stone is uncertain. Manganaro notes the parallel of ILS 271. At least one more line would be expected recording whoever set up the dedication, most likely the colonia or its decurial ordo. The existence of estates belonging to Domitia in the interior of eastern Sicily is attested to by ISic000628, epitaph for a 'magister ovium' in the service of Domitia. Manganaro assumes that this dedication is prior to that on the reverse, on the assumption that damnatio memoriae of Domitian led to the reuse of the tablet, but palaeographically there is little to tell the texts apart.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 8/13/2024