ISic004406: Imperial honorific for Caracalla
- ID
- ISic004406
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Silvestrini 2022
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a slab of limestone, reused in antiquity in the repair of the paving of the so-called 'decumanus maximus' of ancient Lilybaeum; the two fragments were found separately at a distance of some 12 metres from each other. The left fragment (H 48 cm, W 43.5 cm, D 5.5-6.5 cm) preserves the left margin, with a moulding, but is broken on all other sides; the right fragment is broken on all sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 68 cm, width: 69 cm, depth: 5.5-6.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of 8 lines of Latin letters, preserving a consistent left margin, but with lines 7 and 8 showing spacing and centering.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Lines 1-8: 55-65mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Right fragment excavated between 1999 and 2010 in re-use on the decumanus maximus, Capo Boeo; left fragment only identified in 2020. Now in the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Marsala.
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Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , MR 12243
- Autopsy
- None
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Date
Titles preserved fit Caracalla in the period between late 213 and 217 CE (AD 213 – AD 217)- Evidence
- titulature
Text type
commentary
The text is notable for the presence at the start of line 6 of the letters F P P separated by interpuncts, and somewhat smaller than the other letters of the inscription, which seem to abbreviate a series of sigla/epithets honouring Caracalla, and which by comparison with various other honorifics for Caracalla Silvestrini proposes to read (speculatively) as felicissimus, pius, princeps.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Marina Silvestrini, «Un autorevole tribuno militare e una titolatura imperiale in due epigrafi inedite di Lilibeo», Zeitschrift fūr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020): 294–300, at 298-299 no.2 with fig.6
- Marina Silvestrini, «Lilibeo: un’inedita sigla in un’epigrafe per Caracalla», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 221 (2022): 271–75.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Alfredo Tosques
- system
- Last revision
- 2/29/2024