ISic004373: Dedication by a curator of the res publica Liparitanorum

Image courtesy of Giulio Vallarino
ID
ISic004373
Language
Latin
Text type
Honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Vallarino 2018;
  • 6: Vallarino: sui

Physical description

Support

Description
A polished slab of white marble, broken into six joining fragments, with only the left margin partially preserved.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 50.5 cmwidth: 48 cmdepth: 3 cm

Inscription

Layout
The remains of six evenly spaced lines of Latin letters are preserved, with a regular left margin; the right margin is not preserved for any line
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-6: 72mm
Interlinear heights
Line 1-2: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin
Agrigentum
Provenance found
Found in secondary deposition during excavations in the summer of 2015: in a substantial stratum of waste material (US2211), dateable to the C4 CE, in a trench to the north of the 'West stenopos' in the western part of the area of the 'Hellenistic-Roman temple'
Map

Current location

Place
Agrigento, Italy
Repository
Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo ,
Autopsy
2016 (Vallarino)
Map

Date

later 2nd or 3rd century CE (Vallarino on palaeographic grounds) (AD 150 – AD 300)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

Honorific

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Giulio Vallarino
Contributors
Last revision
8/8/2023