ISic000823: Statue base for Hieron II of Syracuse
- ID
- ISic000823
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Kaibel (IG);
- Line.1: ἁγε[ομένου], Dittenberger
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- statue base
- Material
- limestone (area of Taormina?)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 49 cm, width: 99 cm, depth: 84 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- The baseappears to have been found in Acradina in 1734. Lupi 1734, the first published notice, merely refers to it as a 'basis nuper inventa Syracusis'. However, a fuller account of Lupi is provided in Schiavo 1756 (vol.1.5, p.17), stating that it was found in 1734 in the modern suburbs of Syracusa but within the ancient walls. This is in turn formulated as the part of Acradina close to the two ports of the city in the epigraphic 'Raccolta' of Cesare Gaetani (Syracusan antiquarian, 1718-1808, the manuscript compiled 1772-1784).
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 6489
- Autopsy
- Prag 2006-04; 2013-10-02; 2016-06-28, in magazzino C of the Museo archeologico
- Map
Date
reign of Hieron II (265 BC – 215 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
As John Ma, Statues and Cities (Oxford 2013) 20 n.27 notes, this is an anomalous instance of an honorific dedication where the honorand is in the genitive
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5368
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 3231
- 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 14.0002
- W. Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 3rd edn, 3 vols (Leipzig: S. Hirzelium, 1915), at no.427
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1103.1.1
- Guido Libertini, Il regio museo archeologico di Siracusa, Guide dei musei italiani (Roma: La Libreria dello stato, 1929), at 123
- G. De Sensi Sestito, Gerone II. Un monarca ellenistico in Sicilia, vol. 1, Kleio (Palermo: Editrice Sophia, 1977), at 82
- Alessia Dimartino, «Per una revisione dei documenti epigrafici siracusani pertinenti al regno di Ierone II», in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-III sec. a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, a c. di C. Michelini, vol. 2, 2 voll., Atti Elimi V (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), 703–17, at no.1.1
- Alessia Dimartino, «Dedica dei Siracusani a tutti gli dèi», Axon 1, fasc. 1 (2017): 241–46, https://doi.org/10.14277/2532-6848/Axon-1-1-17-22, at 241-246
- J.R.W. Prag, ‘Un Unpublished Funerary Inscription with Bichrome Painted Relief Lettering from Hellenistic Syracuse (I.Sicily 3387)’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 203 (2017): 119–30, at 122 fig.5
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
- 1/19/2021