ISic001897: Fragment of a Latin inscription

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© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
ID
ISic001897
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
unknown
Object type
plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from photograph;
  • 1: The BM website transcribes: [-]FEC[-]; there appears to be the trace of a vertical stroke on the right edge of the stone, perhaps FECI[t?] therefore?

Physical description

Support

Description
A small fragment of white marble, possibly intact along the lower edge, but broken on the other three sides
Object type
plaque
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cm, width: 6.3 cm, depth: 2.5 cm

Material

Description
marble
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
Single line of Latin letters visible
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Tall narrow letters with serifs

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Agrigentum
Provenance found
Obtained by George Dennis from Agrigento and given to the British Museum in 1863.

Current location

Place
London, Sicilia
Repository
The British Museum
1863,0728.238
Autopsy
No autopsy

Date

C2-C3 CE (AD 101 - AD 300)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

The fragment appears unpublished, beyond the presentation on the British Museum website, at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1863-0728-238?selectedImageId=1391232001

Bibliography

Digital editions
  • TM: -
  • EDR: -
  • EDH: -
  • EDCS: -
  • PHI: -

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/25/2025