ISic004503: Fragments of a large plaque bearing the dedication of a mosaic work
- ID
- ISic004503
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Upper marginal section of a marble slab, composed of four joined contiguous fragments and one non-contiguous fragment. Surface and back smooth and polished. The clean-cut right and left edges of the large section seem to suggest that the slab was either cut or may have originally consisted of multiple separate parts (at least three). The separate smaller fragment is 5.5-10 cm high, 8.5-9 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick. Its exact position on the slab appears to remain uncertain.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 62 cm, depth: 1.7-3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin text, in straight alignment.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Elegant square capital letters with serifs. Circular O and C; P with an open loop, R with a closed loop, L with a short arm. Comma-shaped punctuation marks are present.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 90mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 30.5-40mm
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.e. the area of the so-called "Edificio degli Augustales" , in a zone overlooking the Vallata Difesa, near the Church of the Crucifix. In particular, the author reports that the mains fragments (only KA0856 is mentioned), as well as others, were found «nelle immediate vicinanze dell'edificio rettangolare» or in small rooms «a sud dell'edificio, tra esso e il mulino».
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe , KA0856 + KA0840
- Autopsy
- Prado 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
Late first to second century CE (AD 75 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
As Libertini (who did not mention fragment KA840) had already suggested, the fragments formed part of an inscription displayed in a public building, within which the dedicator had very likely commissioned – or perhaps restored – a mosaic. The presence of mosaics in Centuripe is well attested, as is the occurrence of public buildings and works commissioned, restored, or adorned by members of the local elite. It is highly probable that the dedicator, Coellus (Coelius) Lupus (attested without filiation), belonged to, or was related to, the wealthy family of the Pompeii Sosii Prisci Falcones (cf. I.Sicily000655 and I.Sicily000656), most likely of Centuripine origin. The nomen Coelius indeed occurs within the long sequence of names of Q. Roscius Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullius Pius Iulius Eurycles Herculanus Pompeius Falco, consul suffectus in 108 CE, mentioned in I.Sicily000655.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- Printed editions
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Francesca Prado
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/9/2025