ISic001031: Dedication recording board of magistrates
- ID
- ISic001031
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication; list of magistrates
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Pugliese Carratelli 1956
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large quadrangular block of offwhite limestone, in the form of a base. Intact on all sides, but extensive minor damage to the exposed edges. The base is finished smooth. A modern spike projects from the base, presumably for an earlier display mounting. The front face is recessed , with a projecting moulding across top and bottom, and the inscription filling the recessed face. The recessed face, with mouldings above and below, is continued onto the front half of each of the left and right sides (to a depth of 19.5 cm on the left, 19 cm on the right); the rear portion of each side of the block returns to the 'original' surface level, and is only roughly picked flat, implying that the block was inserted into a wall or monument, projecting out for only half its depth. The top is flat, with a central panel front to back that is smooth (c.30 cm wide); the right side of the top is slightly lower front to back and also smooth, while the left portion is more roughly finished. There are no indications of fixing holes of any sort on the upper surface.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 52.5 cm, depth: 41.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Line 1 is inscribed across the upper moulding (which is heavily damaged); the remainder of the text is engraved on the recessed front face, in two columns. The spacing between the columns after the first line is very irregular; column 2 has a half-line gap after line 2, meaning that the lines in the two columns are vertically out of synch after this point.
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 18mm
- Line 2-23: 11-15 (with omicron down to 9 and phi up to 20)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Acrae
- Provenance found
- First published by G. Amati in 1827, on the basis of apographs of the Danish scholar Børge Thorlacius made when travelling in Sicily. This and other inscriptions were in the possession of the Baron Gabriele Iudica, who was responsible for their discovery in ancient Akrai.
Current location
- Place
- Palazzolo Acreide, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Gabriele Judica , 2238
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2023-05-11
- Map
Date
Later third or second century BCE on palaeographic grounds. (250 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492659
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102185
- PHI: 140510
- PHI: 175416
- Printed editions
- Girolamo Amati, «Tavole greche de’magistrati annuali, scoperte ultimamente fra le rovine dell’antichissima città di Acre in Sicilia», Giornale Arcadico di scienze, lettere, ed arti 35 (1827): 339–57, https://ia800903.us.archive.org/12/items/giornalearcadico35roma/giornalearcadico35roma.pdf, at 348 no.5
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5426
- 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 14.0211
- G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Silloge dell’ epigrafi acrensi», in Akrai, a c. di L. Bernabó Brea (Catania, 1956), 151–81, at no.6 ph
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 110
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/1/2021