ISic004522: Fragment of a Latin inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2019-10-01

ID: ISic004522
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides. The plaque originally bore a monumental Latin inscription on the reverse (, with the trace of a moulding on along the broken lower edge, and was subsequently re-used for this text
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 15 cm, width: 19.5 cm, depth: 4.2 cm

Inscription

Layout

A single line of crudely incised Latin letters, with two faintly incised horizontal lines running across the face some distance below the text.

Text condition

incomplete

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 41mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Schubring in his autopsy notes of 1865 for the inscription on the obverse (no.144) states that the piece was found in the area of the great altar of Hieron; Mommsen in CIL states that it was found by Serradifaclo among the ruins of the great altar (but does not reference the source for this claim). Found with ISic000417.

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Autopsy: Flavio Santini, 2018-09-19, Magazzino B, cassette 50
Map

Date

later Roman, after the second century BCE (AD 200 – AD 500)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

There may be a short vacat after the M. The inscription was recorded by Orsi in his taccuini, but was not mentioned by either Schubring or Mommsen in their records of the obverse (ISic000418). 'DEM' is perhaps most likely part of a form of 'isdem', but there are many other possibilities.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p. 71 no. 84

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

6/28/2024