ISic000039: I.Sicily inscription 000039

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ID: ISic000039
Language: Latin
Status: draft
Text type: unknown
Object type: unknown

Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of IMusPalermo

Physical description

Support

Description: No data
Object type: unknown
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 20 cm, width: 10.5 cm, depth: 5 cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.marble > unverified

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1-2: 40-45mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Panhormus high certainty
Provenance found: Found in the ruins of the former monastery of the Stimmate (demolished 1785), in the area of the later Piazza G. Verdi
Map

Current location

Place: Palermo, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas; 3540
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

2nd — 3rd century CE (so Bivona) (AD 101 - AD 300)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

As Bivona notes, the modest dimensions make it more likely that 'pont' is part of a personal name, rather than 'pontifex' and so part of e.g. an imperial inscription.

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 40

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2021