ISic000419: I.Sicily inscription 000419
- ID
- ISic000419
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- Building (store-room?)
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Preliminary text based upon the transcription of Kaibel in IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large texts incised on the walls of four galleries off the second ditch of the Euryelos fortress
- Object type
- Building (store-room?)
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Each text is incised on a single line, in the first case on the right as one enters, in the other three cases on the left as one enters
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 120-150mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- First described in situ in the galleries off the second ditch of the fortress by Schubring in the 1860s
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica Castello Eurialo
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th — 3rd century BCE, but whether part of a Dionysian, Agathoclean, or Hieronian phase unclear. (400 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Previous editors have been uncertain whether these are numerals or letters, and whether Latin or Greek. The most recent edition by Mertens, after consultation with Maria Letizia Lazzarini, suggests that these are acrophonic numerals (Greek) of the fourth or third century BC. A revised edition will follow. Orsi's taccuini (vol. 2, p. 41) provide a further autoptic transcription (8 November 1888).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491648
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900482
- PHI: 140311
- Printed editions
- J. Schubring, ‘Akrä-Palazzolo. Eine topographisch-archäologische Skizze’, Jahrbücher für classische Philologie Vierter Supplementband (1867 1861): 659–73, at 671-672 tab. no.8
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7139
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7139a = p.992
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0017
- H.-J. Beste and D. Mertens, Die Mauern von Syrakus. Das Kastell Euryalos und die Befestigung der Epipolai, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom Sonderschriften Band 18 (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015), at 147-148 Abb.179a-d
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 41
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 6/2/2021