ISic010019: Bronze signaculum

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
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

ownership

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

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Ilenia Gradante
Contributors
Last revision
6/18/2026