Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
The collection in the "Casina degli Inglesi" consists of 20 inscriptions, 1 statue, two busts, a few mosaics, a 2nd C AD marble sarcophagus and some modern art
Location
Via del Teatro Greco 40, 98039 - Taormina (ME)
Taormina, Messina, Italy
Inscriptions
| Inventory number | ID | Title | Date | Origin | Material | Type | Object type | Language | Current location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ISic001259 | Statue base in honour of Olympis Mestos | 150 BCE - 51 BCE | red brecciated limestone with pink and white nodules, and white veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (pink scaglia-like nodules, sparite veins, red nodules) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | honorific | base | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 2 | ISic001260 | Inscribed statue base for Gaius Claudius Marcellus | 79 BCE - 79 BCE | red brecciated limestone with pink and white nodules, and white veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (pink scaglia-like nodules, sparite veins, red nodules) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | honorific | base | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 8 | ISic001258 | Dedication of an altar for Hestia | 300 BCE - 101 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with ammonites, foraminifera, sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | dedication | altar | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 19 | ISic000282 | I.Sicily inscription 000282 | CE 101 - CE 300 | limestone | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| 29 | ISic000786 | Funerary inscription for Aulus Larcius | CE 151 - CE 300 | Fine to medium-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Docimian, Parian-1, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | funerary | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| 30 | ISic003412 | Funerary inscription for Lydia | CE 251 - CE 500 | Very fine to fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 31 | ISic003407 | fragmentary funerary inscription | CE 301 - CE 500 | Fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD) | funerary | unknown | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 32 | ISic001265 | Funerary inscription for Phabia Eignatiane | Unknown - Unknown | limestone | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 33 | ISic000653 | Fragmentary imperial period Greek epitaph | CE 101 - CE 200 | marble | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 34 | ISic001267 | Fragmentary christian funerary epitaph | CE 401 - CE 450 | stone | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 35 | ISic001269 | Funerary inscription for Agathon | CE 409 - CE 409 | Very fine-grained, veined (dark grey), white marble, likely Algerian_scritto_Annaba, Algerian_scritto_Mt-Filfila. Digital microscopy: indistinguishable fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 36 | ISic003411 | Tile inscribed with funerary epitaph | CE 301 - CE 500 | clay | funerary | tile | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| 42 | ISic000279 | Dedication to Caracalla | CE 211 - CE 217 | marble | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| 56 | ISic000281 | Fragment of an imperial honorific? | CE 151 - CE 250 | Strongly altered marble, likely unspecified (identification based on stable isotopes analysis) | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| 57 | ISic000283 | Fragments of an honorific inscription | CE 1 - CE 100 | limestone | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| 3555 | ISic000284 | Block of marmor Luculleum bearing quarry inscription | CE 108 - CE 108 | polychrome breccia with whitish and red nodules, greenish and grey matrix, grey and black veins, likely Luculleum (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | Quarry mark | block | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000613 | Fragments of a painted library catalogue | 250 BCE - 101 BCE | plaster on mortar (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | library catalogue | wall | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000624 | Fragments of consular fasti | 8 BCE - CE 14 | marble | list of magistrates | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000662 | Fragments of a Roman calendar and local aedilician and duumviral fasti | 8 BCE - CE 14 | Very fine-grained, banded, grey marble, likely unspecified. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric. is it one text??? (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | calendar list of magistrates | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000695 | Fragmentary monumental Latin inscription | CE 98 - CE 117 | marble | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000696 | Fragment of a Latin text | CE 1 - CE 250 | marble | honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000697 | Fragment of a Latin text containing numerals | CE 1 - CE 300 | marble | funerary | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic000698 | I.Sicily inscription 000698 | CE 1 - CE 50 | marble (grey) | calendar | N/A | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001246 | List of stratagoi | 300 BCE - 1 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | list of magistrates | stele | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001247 | Gymnasium accounts | 200 BCE - 51 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | stele | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001248 | Civic accounts | 200 BCE - 1 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001249 | Civic accounts | 200 BCE - 1 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001250 | Civic accounts | 200 BCE - 1 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001251 | Civic accounts | 200 BCE - 1 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001254 | I.Sicily inscription 001254 | 200 BCE - 46 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (wackestone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001255 | I.Sicily inscription 001255 | 200 BCE - 46 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001256 | Dedication to the holy goddesses | 100 BCE - CE 100 | Medium to coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Proconnesian. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | dedication | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001832 | Inscribed theatre seat | 200 BCE - 101 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy) | seat inscription | seat | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001833 | Inscribed theatre seat | 200 BCE - 101 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized limestone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | seat inscription | seat | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001834 | Inscribed theatre seat | 200 BCE - 101 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (limestone with grey veins) (identification based on pXRF) | seat inscription | seat | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001835 | Inscribed theatre seat | 200 BCE - 101 BCE | greyish limestone with grey veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (limestone with grey veins) (identification based on pXRF) | seat inscription | seat | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001879 | Fragment of an imperial honorific(?) | CE 201 - CE 400 | marble | Honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001880 | Fragment of an inscription | CE 1 - CE 400 | marble | unknown | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic001881 | Fragment of an inscription | CE 1 - CE 400 | marble | unknown | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| ME33871 | ISic001885 | Funerary inscription for a young woman | CE 101 - CE 200 | A grainy white marble | funerary | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic002985 | I.Sicily inscription 002985 | 46 BCE - 36 BCE | greyish limestone, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic002986 | Section of the civic accounts of Tauromenion | 100 BCE - 45 BCE | greyish limestone, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic002987 | Inscription recording civic accounts | 200 BCE - 46 BCE | greyish limestone, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized peloidal grainstone with sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic003081 | Block containing section of civic accounts | 200 BCE - 51 BCE | light grey limestone with white veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (grainstone with dolomitized peloids, gasteropoda (ammonite) and sparitic calcite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic003082 | Block recording section of civic accounts | 200 BCE - 51 BCE | light grey limestone with white veins, likely calcare di Taormina (DOA) (dolomitized limestone with sparitic calcite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy) | accounts | block | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| TAO 423 | ISic003567 | Funerary epitaph for Seberina | CE 201 - CE 500 | marble | funerary | plaque | Ancient Greek | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic004371 | Fragment of an honorific for Domitia | CE 81 - CE 96 | marble | Honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic004372 | Fragment of an imperial honorific | CE 96 - CE 169 | marble | Honorific | plaque | Latin | Taormina | |
| N/A | ISic004395 | Fragment of a Sikel(?) text | 500 BCE - 401 BCE | volcanic (lava stone) | unknown | block | Sikel | Taormina |