ISic001899: Fragment of a Latin(?) inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph;
- 1: The BM website rightly notes that the identification of the letter is uncertain, but a Latin V is as plausible as anything else (the BM's hypothetical Etruscan L is however excessively speculative and implausible in the context of a marble text from Agrigentum)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small fragment of white marble, broken on all sides and with surface corrosion. No measurements are available.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Single letter visible
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- 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
- 1863,0728.237
- Autopsy
- No autopsy
Date
Roman imperial, i.e. first to third century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The fragment appears unpublished, beyond the presentation on the British Museum website, at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1863-0728-237. While it is uncertain whether this is Latin, or indeed a letter V, the use of white marble makes a Latin text of the imperial period much more likely than anything else. The piece appears to be one of a substantial number of minor pieces collected by George Denis in Agrigento prior to 1863 when they were acquired by the Museum.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/28/2025