ISic000652: I.Sicily inscription 000652
- ID
- ISic000652
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary possibly honorific
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Guarducci
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large irregular but broadly rectangular block of grey limestone (of moderate quality, not seemingly the compact Taormina limestone), damaged on all sides, especially upper and lower right. It is unclear whether either the top or the bottom of the text is preserved, but a clear vacat is visible at the end of lines 2, 3, and 4, although the stone is not intact on the right..
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 43 cm, width: 148 cm, depth: 66 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large, regular letters of generally fairly broad module, but with some irregularlity in the width of the module. Lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega. Large round omicron. narrow alpha with broken bar.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 50-55mm
- Line 2: 53-70mm
- Line 3: 45-55mm
- Line 4: 50-55mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found during works to open Via del Littorio on Ortygia, between 1934 and 1936; one of a number of unstratified finds (apparently in secondary deposition, reused as building material) in the area of Largo Antonello Gagini, formerly Largo XXVIII Ottobre. Now in storage in the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Siracusa, magazzino C.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 50115
- Autopsy
- Prag 2013-10-03
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (Guarducci) (AD 101 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Understood by Guarducci (ed.pr.) to be a verse epigram for a doctor, likely of the second century CE, of a type familiar in mainland Italy, and perhaps to be associated with a sanctuary of Aesclepias in the vicinity (a statue of Hygeia was found in the area also). Manganaro instead suggested an interpretation relating to the construction of a thermal spa / bath building, perhaps in the fourth century (strongly rejected by Robert). ISic000632 was found in close proximity.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644892
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 331828
- PHI: 332861
- 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 225-226
- 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 218 fig.26
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1967.0707
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1950.0241a
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738.14
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0968
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 208 no.8
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 63 n.322
- 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 99 no.14
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Fontane ed edifici termali nella Catina “ bilingue ” tardo-antica e l’editto di Eumathios del 434 d. C.», Travaux et mémoires du Centre de recherches d’histoire et civilisation byzantines 16 (2010): 513–31.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/8/2025