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CIL 6.16019 Rediscovered
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2018
Abstract
The inscription CIL 6.16019 has remained substantially dependent on an 1881 publication that has provided the fullest description of the inscription and a relief on a separate panel reported as found with it. Even though more recent analyses have adopted different lines of interpretation, there has been no new encounter with the actual panels. No photograph has been published and the inscription and relief were thought to be lost. This article announces that the inscription and relief have been located (in July 2016) and have been able to be photographed.
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20 The building of the Ponte Garibaldi in 1888 accelerated the building explosion in the area.
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24 Frenz’s dissertation was subsequently published but concentrated on reliefs for which he had photographic evidence. No reference to CIL 6.16019 was included. See Frenz, H. G., Römische Grabreliefs in Mittel- und Süditalien (Rome 1985)Google Scholar.
25 GPS coordinates: 41˚53'13''N / 12˚27'57''E.
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27 Kleiner (n.26) 124.
28 RPC §1564; HRIC §3; RIC §113.
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35 Wrede (n.14) 406-8, noting plates 82-4.
36 Kleiner (n.26) figs. 22, 30.
37 The double nominative is honorific for Anteros (larger letter size), without compromise for Apollonia’s initiative (fecit).
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45 Compare CIL 6.2226; CIL 6.17347, 24019 has ∙que∙ after libertabus but no breakdown for posterisque; the converse occurs in CIL 6.15182, 17158; in CIL 6.15160 the que is both abbreviated to ‘q’ and divided by puncts. In some inscriptions, puncts become dividers of syllables: CIL 6.15917, 15946, 16898, 24041, 24050.
46 Compare CIL 6.15710, 15767, 15769, 15790, and 15887 for slight abbreviations of ll.4-6 and CIL 6.16563 for a heavier pruning; see CIL 6.15258, 15983, 16563 for partial abbreviations for ll.5-6, reducing to L∙L∙P∙Q∙E∙ in CIL 6.16792.
47 See CIL 6.15164, 15166, 15168, 15172, 15173, 15174, 15178, 15173 as a handful amongst thousands.
48 J. S. and A. E. Gordon, Contributions to the Palaeography of Latin Inscriptions (Berkeley, CA 1957) 216, 211. Their album of datable inscriptions bears this out. The combination of these letter forms, as also a down-turn in the completion of the curvilinear stroke of the letter P, is most nearly matched by first-century styles; see A. E. and J. S. Gordon, Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions (4 vols.; Berkeley 1958-65) vol. 1, nos. 28, 34, 93 (with plates to vol. 1); cf. no. 126, which is dated at the end of the first century ce but has a horizontal finish to the curvilinear stroke.
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53 I am grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for this paper, as also to Dr Michael Theophilos, for their salutary comments.