ISic001035: Fragment of a list of names

Apparatus criticus

Text from autopsy;
1: Not noted in previous editions
3: Pugliese Carratelli: -].Σ ΦΙΛ[-
4: Orsi, Kaibel: -]ΙΔΑΣ ΦΙΛ[-
5: Orsi, Kaibel: -]ΝΙΔΑΣ ΗΡΑ[-; Pugliese Carratelli: -]Ι̣ΝΙΛΑΣ ΗΡΑ[-

Physical description

Support

Description: A small triangular fragment of white marble, intact along the lower edge, but broken on the other sides. The reverse is cut flat, but only roughly finished.
Object type: unknown
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 7.7 (face 7.5) cm, width: 10.5 (face 10) cm, depth: 1.9-2.1 cm

Material

Description: marble

Inscription

Layout: Preserves traces of 6 lines of Greek letters, with a clear vacat below. There are clear spaces between each word (name).
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Moderately regular thinly incised letters with pronounced terminal serifs, and a fairly square module. Alpha with straight bar; delta (and sigma) show slight curvature; kappa with short arms; omicron slightly smaller (c.2mm less) and above the line; sigma with parallel outer strokes, and sometimes a pronounced extension to the mid-join; phi with extended vertical (11mm) and small over-semi-circular loops.
Letter heights: Line 1-6: 5-8mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Acrae
Provenance found: Purchased by the Siracusa Museum, as coming from Akrai, in 1888; now in storage, magazzino B, cass.6

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 6795
Autopsy: Prag, 2014-09-11, cass. 6, magazzino B, MARPO
Map

Date

2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

list

commentary

As noted already by Orsi (with Halbherr), this is a list of names. In lines 3-6, a name in the nominative is separated by one letter space from what is presumably the associated patronymic (in the genitive). In line 2, the letters ΝΤΟΣ are set somewhat further to the right than the names below, but a longer name in the nominative ending in -ντος seems the most likely resolution (since a singular genitive participle referring to e.g. office held, or activity undertaken hardly fits with a list of nominative names below). It is clear that the gap between names is in no way aligned from one line to the next. Kaibel included the text in the addenda to IG XIV, and there proposed that it should be connected to another fragment with nominative names, also from Akrai, and in Palermo museum (ISic001034), although he noted in his commentary that his description of the latter was clearly flawed, if this was the case. Pugliese Carratelli merely noted the proposal without judgement, but as Manni Piraino observes, the piece presented here is of marble, while the Palermo fragment is of the local limestone (Kaibel should have trusted his original notes!), and the two cannot be part of the same stone. A closer parallel from Akrai is offered by a fragment recording gymnasiarchs (ISic001033. Several similar marble fragments with names are preserved from Hellenistic Syracuse also. (Note that IGPalermo misreports the inventory number as 657.)

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: 644932
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: 175413

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor