ISic000819: I.Sicily inscription 000819
- ID
- ISic000819
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph and rapid autopsy;
- 7-8: Manganaro 1962 resolved the last two lines as γαμέτρας
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A funerary altar, damaged upper right; the text is set out in a simple incised square frame.
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 74 cm, width: 39 cm, depth: 27 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-8: 30-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Netum
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Noto, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Noto
- Autopsy
- Observed and photographed, Prag, 02.03.2023; in storage in depositi of the museum in ex-complesso conventuale di Sant'Antonio da Padova.
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
In 1962, Manganaro suggested that the decoration on the side represented the tools of an agrimensor, in support of an attempt to interpret lines 7-8 as a doric form of geometres, viz gametras. As Manganaro 2001 observed, in fact this was an erroneous reading, induced by the very irregular layout of the text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644908
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 1964.0158
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1964.0627
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Graffiti e iscrizioni funerarie della Sicilia orientale», Helikon 2 (1962): 485–501, at 496, fig.5-6
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Noto greca e romana:fonti storiografiche,epigrafi e pseudo-monete», in Contributi alla geografia storica dell’agro netino. Atti delle Giornate di Studio. Noto, Palazzo Trigona, 29-31 maggio 1998, a c. di F. Balsamo e V. La Rosa (Rosolini, 2001), 73–96, at 81 no.X, fig. 11-11a
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Maria Barbieri
- system
- Last revision
- 3/20/2023