ISic010019: Bronze signaculum
- ID
- ISic010019
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Latin
- Object type
- signaculum
- Text type
- ownership
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Bronze seal with framed, cargo-ship-shaped, lamina; intact ring handle.
- Object type
- signaculum
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 3.8 cm, width: 7 cm, depth: 0.6 cm
Material
- Description
- bronze
Inscription
- Layout
- 3 straight lines inscription.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- relief letters
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 5mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Panormus
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- 1059
- Autopsy
- Ilenia Gradante, August 2019
- Map
Date
75-250 CE (CE 75 - CE 250)- Evidence
- lettering, nomenclature
Text type
commentary
Family company, composed of two or three members, depending on whether one wants to recognise one - Potiti Herenniani iun(oris) - or two - Potiti (et) Herenniani iun(ioris) - distinct persons in the second part of the text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.8059.91
- Guido Libertini, Il Museo Biscari (Milan: Casa editrice Dâarte Bestetti e Tuminelli, 1930), at 143
- Manganaro Perrone (2006) at 18, no. 3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Ilenia Gradante
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/18/2026