ISic004502: Section of an inscribed architrave
- ID
- ISic004502
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: Libertini: ei[us]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two thin, isolated marble fragments, contiguous and composed in turn of reassembled elements: the first consists of four sections, the second of three. An upper marginal lacuna is visible, especially in the second fragment on the right. The piece appears to belong to an architrave, possibly constructed from separate panels, as the relatively clean-cut edge on the left might suggest. A moulding is partially preserved along the lower edge. The surface is smooth and carefully finished, with traces of lime and minor abrasions; the back is polished.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 9-16 cm,聽width: 88 cm,聽depth: 0.7-1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Part of a line of Latin text with a perfectly straight alignment. Traces of a guideline. Traces of part of a letter remain on the right: a stroke aligned with the break line
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- rubrication
- Lettering
Elegant square capital letters, slightly verticalized, uniform and evenly spaced, with serifs and minimal traces of rubrication: E with parallel strokes, circular C, R with a closed loop, P with an open loop, A with a vertical crossbar. Words are separated by interpuncts.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 110mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Discovered by Guido Libertini during the excavation campaigns conducted starting in 1925, within the complex of spaces near the so-called former Barbagallo Mill, i.g. the area of public buildings near the so-called "Edificio degli Augustales" , in a zone overlooking the Vallata Difesa. The contextual information is not very clear. Specifically, the author states that the fragments, and others, were found either 芦nelle immediate vicinanze dell'edificio rettangolare禄 or in small rooms 芦a sud dell'edificio, tra esso e il mulino禄.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe , KA0851
- Autopsy
- Prado 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
Late first to second century CE (AD 75 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Given the context of discovery, possibly part of a public building erected or restored by one or more members of the local elite (?). In the same area, Libertini also discovered I.Sicily003398 which might possibly refer to a Pompeius Ce[ler]. Libertini himself used the cognomen Celer, attested in this inscription, in order to restore I.Sicily003398. Libertini proposed the restoration 'Pater eius'; however, the break on the right side of the slab, corresponding to the vertical stroke of a letter, would seem to rule out the presence of a U. Judging from the presence of an 'et' following the cognomen Celer, it is possible that another dedicator was mentioned after him.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Francesca Prado
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/2/2025