ISic001789: Fragment of a monumental Latin inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy;
- 1: The tail under the F must be from a preceding Q
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of grey-white marble plaque, seemingly intact on the right side, smooth on the reverse, broken on the other three sides. The metal rust on the right hand side (front face only) is perhaps from a clamp for display?
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 15.4 cm,聽width: 9.3 cm,聽depth: 2.1 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Part of a single line of letters, missing the upper part of the line, with a vacat of 6cm below before the break.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large v-cut letters with wedge serifs.Light arrow-head shaped interpuncts.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: Slightly greater than the preserved 75mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- No record of discovery is preserved
Current location
- Place
- , Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- Prag 2015-03-15, cassette 20, magazzino B, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Map
Date
first century CE (AD 1 - AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Whether this is the first line of the text or not is impossible to say; it presumably continued either on the line below or on an adjoining plaque. It seems most likely that this is part of a public honorific text, but it is not possible to say more, given lack of provenance and other information. The fragment is unpublished.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/13/2026