ISic001698: I.Sicily inscription 001698
- ID
- ISic001698
- Language
- Latin
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- prayer/invocation
- Object type
- mosaic
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Wilson 2020
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Mosaic floor of the frigidarium, approx. 6.25 x 5.85 m, within a late fourth-century (c.380 CE) bath house adjoining a fourth-century Roman villa.
- Object type
- mosaic
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- The primary text is laid out in a border surrounding all four sides of the mosaic floor (whihc is itself made up of pairs of overlapping and intertwining irregular hexagons). The border has a black frame, with white background, containing black letters the full height of the border. The text begins in the SW corner, proceeding along the West, North, East and South sides, with the letters to be read from within the room on each side. Four monograms, letters on white background, occupy the circular rosettes at the centre of ribbon-bordered octagons in the middle of the mosaic. The south-east monogram is damaged and lost.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- mosaic
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gerace
- Provenance found
- Found in excavation in 2017/18
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gerace, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Building constructed c. 380 CE and the mosaic laid at the same time. (AD 380 - AD 390)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/4/2022