ISic004385: Two fragments of a monumental Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic004385
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- #frA: Frag A text from photograph of Isler 2009: taf.16.9
- #frA.1: Isler -]Ṭ(?)TIMA; the trace of an upper horizontal is visible, but this could be compatible with F or E also
- #frB: Frag B is text of A. Kolbe in Mohr et al. 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two fragments of one or more rectangular blocks of the local grey limestone, forming an extended text.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 41 cm, width: 54 cm, depth: 24 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines of Latin letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 100-105mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ietas
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- San Cipirello, Italy
- Repository
- depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation , I 16 A/B
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Palaeographically the text appears late Republican, while archaeologically the context suggests a terminus ante quem of c. 50 CE (when Iato suffered significant earthquake damage); if the resotriation of a praefectus cohortis is correct, that implies an Augustan date. (31 BC – AD 50)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
The form of the two fragments, which are of similar stone and lettering, suggests that they are part of a single text composed of multiple rectangular blocks, forming an extended monumental text (of only a few lines in height, but considerable length), perhaps relating to construction, of similar format to the fragmentary monumental Greek text associated with the theatre (ISic002745)
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 74000027
- EDCS: 74000028
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Hans Peter Isler, ‘Grabungen auf dem Monte Iato im Herbst 2007 und im Jahr 2008’, Antike Kunst 52 (2009): 95–109, at 101 with taf.16.9
- Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: scavi 2007-2008», Sicilia Archeologica 105 (2011): 49, at 49
- Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: scavi 2007-2008», in Sicilia occidentale: studi, rassegna, ricerche, a c. di Carmine Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 91–103, at 96 with fig.181
- M. Mohr, C. Reusser, and A. Elsener, ‘Forschungen auf dem Monte Iato 2016’, Antike Kunst 60 (2017): 91–108, at 94-95
- M. Mohr et al., ‘Forschungen auf dem Monte Iato 2017’, Antike Kunst 61 (2018): 88–107, at 100-101 tav.15.2
- Francesca Spatafora, «Scavi e attivita di ricerca del Polo Archeologico di Palermo: un aggiornamento», Kokalos 56 (2019): 103–75, https://doi.org/10.19272/201900601002, at 121 with fig. 20
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/4/2021