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Editor: N.Rafetseder

Text:

M(arco) Aureliọ

Vero Caesare co(n)s(uli)

Imp(eratori)

T(iti) Aeli Hadriani

5 Antonini Aug(usti)

Pii filio

p(ecunia) p(ublica) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum).

(Fasolo 2013)

Translation: “ To Marcus Aurelius Verus Caesar consul, son of the Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, (paid out of) public money, by decree of the decurions ”. (N.Rafetseder)

Find Spot: Tindari, perhaps found in the Theater area.

Support: marble slab (h. 82 x l. 74)

No./Current location: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, no. 3565

Dating: 138-140 AD (Fasolo); 140 AD (EDR142423)

Bibliography: CIL X, 7473; EDR142423; TM491853; EDCS-22100592; ISic0064; L.BIVONA, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Palermo 1970, 76-77, no. 65, tav. XL (photo); M.TH.RAEPSAET-CHARLIER, A propos du récent catalogue d’inscriptions latines du musée de Palerme, Latomus 33, 1974, 124-127, 126; G.MANGANARO, La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 3-89, 84; R.J.A.WILSON, Towns of Sicily during the Roman Empire, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 90-206, 139-140, no. 165; E.C.PORTALE, La scultura, in: U.Spigo (ed.),Tindari. L’area archeologica e l’antiquarium, Milazzo 2005, 79-83; M.FASOLO, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari, Roma 2013, 71-72, no. 3, fig. 33 (photo); L.PFUNTNER, Celebrating the Severans: Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily, Latomus 75.2, 2016, 434-456, 444.