ISic030050: Fragment of a Latin inscription on bronze
- ID
- ISic030050
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph;
- line.2: The line above the numerals in line 2 continues to the left implying a further character prior to the two visible Xs; traces in the damaged surface appear compatible with another X
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small fragment of bronze plaque, broken on all sides
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 1.8 cm, width: 3.2 cm, depth: 0.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Latin letters on two lines; a horizontal line runs immediately above the letters on the second line
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ietas
- Provenance found
- Found in 1986 in a mediaeval layer (below that of ISic030049) in the area of the agora, in the area of the altar in front of the so called podium temple (part of the west portico complex of the agora)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- San Cipirello, Italy
- Repository
- depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation , I.6
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
late Republican or early imperial (200 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The fragment is one of three metal fragments (two Latin, one Greek) reported by Isler from the Ietas excavations; cf. ISic030048 and ISic030049. The form of the fragment strongly suggests a public/official document, which would be the first surviving example of a formal document on bronze in Latin from the island (together with ISic030049). The state of preservation of this fragment is different from that of the other Latin fragment, and from the limited evidence available the letter forms appear different also; although found in the same location, the two fragments are reported form different later, mediaeval, layers. It is plausible to assume that they are fragments of two separate public documents originally displayed somewhere in the agora in the Roman period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Discussion
- Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: la venticinquesima campagna di scavo», Sicilia Archeologica 28, fasc. 87–89 (1995): 19–38, at 20 with 37 n.11
- Hans Peter Isler, ‘Grabungen auf dem Monte Iato 1995’, Antike Kunst 39, no. 1 (1996): 52–64, at 54 n.8
- Hans Peter Isler, «L’agora ellenistica di Iaitas», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di Carmine Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 229–37, at 234 with n.41
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/20/2021