ISic000869: I.Sicily inscription 000869

Reproduction of the drawing in Avolio 1827: 292

ID: ISic000869
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: dedication
Object type: statue base
Status: draft
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Edition

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) Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of IG (after Gaetani) ;
Avolio, MARPO inv: ΦΟΙΒΟΥ

Physical description

Support

Description: Described in the inventory as 'marble column base, diameter 55cm, with inscription on the face which rests on the ground; described in IG as 'basis marmorea'; Avolio describes as white marble.
Object type: statue base
Material: marble
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: cm, width: 55 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Described by Cesare Gaetani (Raccolta no.12), as seen by him as lying abandoned in the courtyard of Sig. Barone del Casale (to be assigned to a period between 1748 and 1772); it was subsequently passed to the museum.

Current location

Lost?

Date

Late Hellenistic or early imperial by the lettering in the drawing of Avolio: presence of serifs combined with small omicron probably suggests later Hellenistic (150 BC - AD 200)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

Not so far identified. The equivalence of MARPO inv. 2 with IG XIV.52 seems highly likely, but is not certain.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2021