KI029 (Early Roman Latin Inscription) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Medium-fine, calcite marble with white matrix and dense, parallel, pale gray veining. Proconnesian.

Technique

Letters are thin and crisply cut and evenly set along lettering plane.

Writing transcription

S Ẹ [- - -] | N I · A [- - -]

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Inscription (stone)

Preservation description

One small fragment of plaque, broken on all sides, preserves small part of two lines of Latin text. Faces remain smoothly polished but fractured edges are very worn. Left side sawn and snapped in secondary use. Slight, sparse abrasion and gouging on all surfaces. Patch of pinkish gray, medium-grained mortar adheres to back.

Published as

Rife2022e, pp. 1196, 1200-1201, no. 916, fig. 25.2

Letter height (maximum)

0.034

Letter height (minimum)

0.029

Preserved length

0.137

Preserved width

0.059

Thickness

0.023

Chronology comment

Early Roman (1st–early 2nd century). Dated by paleography.

Explanation of deposition

From Early Roman building in area?

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Roman (Historical Period)

Material

Marble (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0910-001

Location in unit

Topsoil over northwest Octagon.