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A Note on Five Inscriptions in Swansea*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013
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The following five inscriptions, three of which were noted in Rome in the eighteenth century, while the other two are unpublished, have found their way to the Royal Institution of South Wales at Swansea.
1. Plate X, a. White marble plaque, sub-rectangular in form, but with top right corner broken away (33·5 × 29·0 × 3·25). Top and bottom edges smooth; sides very roughly cut; back flat and smooth over much of surface, but chipped away to nearly half thickness at top, and a smooth ledge cut along bottom. Dowel holes drilled at two points in step created by latter (shallower hole at one side looks modern, deeper hole at middle looks ancient) and at centre of left edge. Some scratches at back, especially along top ledge and at bottom right corner, also look modern.
Letters: 1. 1, 2.7; 1. 2, 2.3; 11. 3–5, 2.0; 11. 6–7, 1.7; 1. 8, 2.2. Ligature of Ӕ at end of 1.3. Stops generally triangles of various sizes, pointing down and a little to the right, but sometimes comma-like; in all the usual places, as well as at end of lines 2, 4, 6, 7.
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References
1 All measurements are given in cms., with width first, height second, depth third.
2 Marini reads ‘Mariis’, but ‘Martis’ is possible and more plausible (for the name see p. 50).
3 The Royal Institution of South Wales. The Seventieth Annual Report of the Council (1904–5), 82.
4 Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea. Catalogue of Antiquities (Devizes, 1913), 9 f.Google Scholar
5 The number does not correspond to that given in the 1913 catalogue.
6 See the references in his E Tenebris Lux (London, 1906)Google Scholar.
7 I owe this information to Mr. J. Bunt, Curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (Swansea).
8 CIL, vi, 1, p. LXIV.
9 For the movement of inscriptions from Rome to Emilia see Susini, G., Il lapidario greco e romano di Bologna (Le collezioni del Museo Civico di Bologna), Bologna, 1960, 147 ff.Google Scholar; and for finds in the Villa Pellucchi see Carta archeologica di Roma, sheet II (Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence, 1964), 50, no. 87Google Scholar.
10 I have to thank Miss Reynolds for her opinions here.
11 He was probably not himself an Imperial freedman; if he were, one would expect him to record the fact (as a status symbol).
12 See indices of CIL, v and xi.
13 There are several examples in CIL, viii, but no certain ones in the indices of the other volumes of CIL, or in EE or AE.
14 CIL, ii, 4970 (332).
15 Alternatively, as Miss Reynolds suggests, the space may have been the result of a miscalculation; in which case the family, finding that there was room, may have added the extra fact themselves.
16 This is Miss Reynolds' suggestion: cf. PBSR, xxxiv (1966), 63Google Scholar (no. 11 b).
17 Of those who have kindly studied photographs of the stone, Miss Reynolds, Mr. Woodhead, Prof. I. Kajanto and Dr. H. Solin give serious consideration to the possibility that it is a fake; while Prof. H. Zilliacus thinks it may be Byzantine.
18 This observation is Mr. Stevenson's.
19 F. Blass and A. Debrunner, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (revised by R. W. Funk, 1961), 81 f.
20 Psalms lxxxv (lxxxvi), 2.
21 Diehl, E., Inscriptions Latinae Christianae Veteres (Berlin, 1925–1931), 929a αGoogle Scholar; 2190; 2234–42.
22 SEG, 8 (1937), 864.
23 SEG, 7 (1934), 875 (Arabia, A.D. 565, based on the Psalms verse cited in n. 20 above); 8 (1937), 871 (Nubia, ninth century).
24 On the use of accents and breathings in inscriptions, see Larfeld, W., Handbuch der griechischen Epigraphik i (Leipzig, 1907), 428Google Scholar; Guarducci, M., Epigrafia great i (Rome, 1967), 387 f.Google Scholar
25 On epigraphic forgeries see e.g. ibid, 488–501; I. Calabi Limentani, Epigrafia latina (1968), 76–80.