ISic001039: Fragmentary archaic Greek inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Pugliese Carratelli 1956
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large block of limestone, damaged on the edges.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 53 cm, width: 45 cm, depth: 28 cm
Material
- Description
- , likely (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.non-polishable.whitish > calcarenite_ibleiOR, calcarenite_ibleiOCC
Inscription
- Layout
- Large archaic Greek letters, running left to right, words(?) separated by dipuncts.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- 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
- Acrae
- Provenance found
- Seen by L. Stefani in the theatre of Akrai in 1844, and subsequently by Schubring in the same location in c.1865; now in Siracusa museum.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 12256
- Autopsy
- Observed and photographed in the basement corridor of the Museum in 2022
- Map
Date
6th â 5th century BCE (archaic script) (600 BCE - 401 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492666
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102192
- PHI: 140517
- PHI: 175486
- Printed editions
- L. Stephani, âParerga archaeologica II-Vâ, Bulletin de la classe historico-philologique de lâAcadĂ©mie impĂ©riale des sciences de St.-PĂ©tersbourg 8 (1851): 387â94, at 394 dr
- J. Schubring, âAkrĂ€-Palazzolo. Eine topographisch-archĂ€ologische Skizzeâ, JahrbĂŒcher fĂŒr classische Philologie Vierter Supplementband (1867 1861): 659â73, at 668
- H. Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae Antiquissimae praeter Atticas in Attica repertas (Berlin: George Reimer, 1882), at no.511
- 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 218
- G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Silloge dellâ epigrafi acrensi», in Akrai, a c. di L. BernabĂł Brea (Catania, 1956), 151â81, at no.53 tav.39
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/19/2024