Editor: N.Rafetseder
Text:
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Severo [- – -]
Pio Fel(ici) Aụ[g(usto) – – -]
col(onia) Aug(usta) Tyṇ[darit(anorum)]
5 numini eius [devota].
(Fasolo 2013)
Translation: “ To Severus [—] Pius Felix Augustus [—], the Augustan colony of the Tyndaritani [devoted] to his divine power [set this up] “.(N.Rafetseder)
Find Spot: Tindari (found in 1880)
Support: fragmentary marble slab (h. 35 x l. 45)
No./Current location: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, no. 3568 (fixed on the left wall of the great yard)
Dating: First half 3rd century AD (Fasolo 2013); 222-235 AD (EDR142428)
Bibliography: CIL 10, 7476; EDR142428; TM491856; EDCS-22100595 (photo); ISic0067; L.BIVONA, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Palermo 1970, 79, no. 68 tav. XLII (photo); G.MANGANARO, La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 3-89, 78; R.J.A.WILSON, Towns of Sicily during the Roman Empire, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 90-206, 140, no. 167; E.DIEHL, s.v. Tyndaris, RE 7.2, 1994, 1776-1790, 1782; M.FASOLO, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari, Roma 2013, 75, no. 9, fig. 39 (photo); L.PFUNTNER, Celebrating the Severans: Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily, Latomus 75.2, 2016, 434-456, 443.