ISic000082: A possible Byzantine boundary stone

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2024-12-03
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2024-12-03
ID
ISic000082
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
terminus
Object type
block

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Bivona 1995

Physical description

Support

Description
A rectangular block, found in re-use in a later fortification wall; worn/damaged on the left end.
Object type
block
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 40 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 22 cm

Material

Description
stone
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Castronuovo di Sicilia
Provenance found
Cassero-Colonne de Castronovo, summit of hill S. Vitale de Kassar, a Byzantine settlement, where it was seen already in 1939.

Current location

Place
Palermo, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
26995
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

5th — 6th century CE (AD 401 - AD 600)
Evidence
No data

Text type

terminus

commentary

Giustolisi speculates that the C in line 2 might be a lunate sigma and so 'basilica' instead, but this seems rather hard to sustain without stronger grounds for the suggestion. The suggestion of Bivona is that this marks the boundary of a property of a church of St Peter.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/10/2026