ISic000824: Syracuse theatre dedications
- ID
- ISic000824
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- wall
- Status
- draft
- Links
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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
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Monumental letters without serifs, but with a widening towards the end of terminal strokes. Straight bar alpha; beta with equal loops, closed; epsilon with shorter middle bar; Mu with verical first and last, shorter mid-strokes; omicron consistently smaller and mid-line; rho with closed loop; sigma with slightly open top and bottom strokes, mid-strokes only part width; phi with a small elliptical eye.
- 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 and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 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 3
- 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