ISic000648: I.Sicily inscription 000648
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro controlled against the stone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, broken on the right and below; parts of top and left margin intact. Now composed of 5 rejoined fragments, but only broken in two places at the time of Orsi.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 18.5 cm, depth: 2.4 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Eight lines of Greek letters, with the first two lines slightly indented compared to the rest, and a vacat below.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deeply incised letters, slightly elongated. Alpha is extended at the top, with straight bar; epsilon is in form of a four-bar sigma with middle bar extended to match top and bottom strokes; zeta is regular Z; theta rhomboid with full middle bar; kappa has full length arms; mu has all strokes off vertical, with the middle strokes not fully descending; omicron is rhomboid; pi has overextended crossbar; rho has rounded and closed head; sigma is regular four-bar; omega is rhomboid but open at the base.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 14mm
- Line 5-8: 12-13mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 10mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 6: 5-7mm
- Interlineation line 6 to 7: 10mm
- Interlineation line 7 to 8: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, from the collezione Coco, Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 8749
- Autopsy
- Depositi, Magazzino B, cassa 41
- Map
Date
4th century CE (AD 301 - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492925
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101690
- PHI: 140813
- PHI: 332937
- Printed editions
- 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 498
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0766
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738.7
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni, epigrafi ed epigrammi in Greco della Sicilia orientale di epoca romana», Mélanges de l’École Francaise de Rome: Antiquité 106, fasc. 1 (1994): 79–118, at 94 no.7 fig.14
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/8/2025