ISic002140: Fragment of a Latin inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy;
- 1: A vertical is preserved after the N, with extended foot serif, joining that of the N; I is most likely.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of thin grey-white marble plaque, broken on all sides, finished smooth on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 7.4 cm, width: 6.2 cm, depth: 1.6 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.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
V-cut letters with extended and slightly irregular serifs.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: Greater than the maximum preserved height of 43 (perhaps c.55 originally)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Chance finds during excavations in Giardina Spagna, November 1937 and September 1938. Now in the Museum stores.
Current location
- Place
- , Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 49737
- Autopsy
- Prag 2015-03-27, cassette 25, magazzino B, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Map
Date
first or early second century CE (AD 1 - AD 150)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The fragment is unpublished. The size suggests a public commemorative text of some description, honorific or building related, in an area which seems to have been a mixture of public and domestic contexts in the Imperial period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/18/2026