ISic000634: Dedication to Zeus and Tyche
- ID
- ISic000634
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A white limestone altar, finished with a claw chisel on all four sides, with inscription on the front face, a relief of an eagle standing on a thunderbolt on the reverse, mouldings on all four sides form the base and the upper register. The altar is broken/damaged across the top
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 47.9 cm, width: 40.6 cm, depth: 40.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscribed field is H 26.5 x W 32.7 with three lines of Greek text
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 45-55mm
- Line 2: 45mm
- Line 3: 40-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 3: 30mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations in the Giardino Spagna necropolis (area of the Umberto I hospital), Siracusa, in 1943; exact findspot not currently localised
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 49607
- Autopsy
- 2006.07 by Prag and checked 2013.09.30, 2017.03.24, on display in sector D
- Map
Date
Later first century BCE or earlier first century CE (50 BC – AD 50)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bernabo Brea suggested linking this dedication to Cic. Verr.4.119 and the quarter of Tyche
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644876
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 332964
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 202-203
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1994.0757
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1951.0255a
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0787
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Culti privati nella Sicilia romana», in L’Afrique, La Gaule, la religion a l’epoque romaine. Melanges a la memoire de Marcel Le Glay, a c. di Y. Le Bohec, Coll. Latomus 226 (Brussels, 1994), 831–40, at 839 ph
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
- 9/9/2024