ISic000824: Syracuse theatre dedications
- ID
- ISic000824
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- wall
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy (2006), except for cuneus 7 (text of Dimartino 2017)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Carved across the rear wall of the terrace separating the upper and lower sections of the theatre cavea, text interrupted by the breaks between the cunei.
- Object type
- wall
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-9: 130-170 (but omicron 90-110)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- In situ in the cunei of the diazoma of the theatre of Hieron II, Siracusa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica della Neapolis, Orecchio di Dionisio e Teatro Greco
- Autopsy
- Prag, April 2006
- Map
Date
In the period subsequent to the establishment of the co-regency of Hieron II and Gelon (i.e. after 241/240 BCE) (241 BC – 220 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, prosopography
Text type
commentary
The reading of cuneus 7 is generally agreed, although the visibility of the individual letters varies from one edition to the next. The missing divine names in 6, 8 and 9 are commonly suggested to be Hera, Kore and Demeter.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5369
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 3232
- 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 14.0003
- W. Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 3rd edn, 3 vols (Leipzig: S. Hirzelium, 1915), at no.429
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 57.0893.2
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1103.1.3
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.0820.1
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0975
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at 2.570
- Malcolm Bell, «Centro e periferia nel regno siracusano di Ierone II», in La colonisation grecque en Méditerranée occidentale, CEFR 251 (Rome, Paris, 1999), 257–77.
- C. Lehmler, Syrakus unter Agathokles und Hieron II (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005), at 125
- 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.1.3
- Alessia Dimartino, «Iscrizioni del teatro di Siracusa», Axon 1,1, fasc. 103 (2017): 267–76, https://doi.org/10.14277/2532-6848/Axon-1-1-17-25.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/16/2024