ISic001060: I.Sicily inscription 001060

Apparatus criticus

• Text checked against photograph (and rapid visual inspection) ;
• 2: Manganaro: Ἀγαθ[άρχου]

Physical description

Support

Description

Block of the local limestone, originally in situ above the entrance to the rock-cut structure of the gymnasium, but then cut from the site and removed. The epigraphic field is 212 x 64 cm. The face has two large round holes cut into the second line, and a further element cut out of the end of the first line (upper right corner). The lower edge is damaged, obscuring part of line 4.

Object type

block

Material

limestone

Object condition

No data

Dimensions

height: 74 cm, width: 212 cm, depth: 48 cm

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

No data

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Very regular neat v-cut letters. The text is centred on the stone. Note the use of horizontal lines/dashes between the name and patronym of the officials. Sigma is four bar and open; Pi has short second vertical; omicron and omega are small, the latter closed.

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Γ type2
• Γ type2.2
• Ε type2
• Ε type2.3
• Ε type2.3.1
• Ε type2.3.2
• Ι type1
• Κ type1
• Κ type1.1
• Λ type2
• Μ type3
• Μ type3.1
• Ν type1
• Ν type1.2
• Ν type1.3
• Ν type2
• Ο type1
• Ο type1.2
• Π type1
• Π type1.1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.1
• Ρ type1.3
• Σ type3
• Σ type3.1
• Τ type2
• Τ type2.1
• Υ type2
• Υ type2.1
• Φ type2
• Φ type2.2
• Χ type3
• Ω type2
• Ω type2.1
• Ω type2.1.1

Letter heights

Line 1-4: 90mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Netum

Provenance found

Found in situ, first observed in 1558.

Current location

Place

Noto, Italy

Repository

Museo Civico di Noto

Autopsy

Photographed in the museum by Prag, 2023.

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

dedication

commentary

The text was first reported by Fazello in the 16th century, but removed from the site in 1894.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 492688
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 39102215
• PHI: 140540

Printed editions

• Tommaso Fazello, F. Thomæ Fazelli... de rebus Siculis decades duæ (Panormi, 1558), at Prioris Decadis, Liber Quartus, p.109
• 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 5466
• Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 81-82 fig.12
• 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 240
• Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5260
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 55.1015
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.0820.3
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Nuove ricerche di epigrafia siceliota», Siculorum Gymnasium 16 (1963): 51–64, at 55 and n.32 ph
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni “rupestri” di Sicilia», in Rupes loquentes: atti del convegno internazionale di studio sulle iscrizioni rupestri di età romana in Italia. Roma - Bomarzo 13-15.X.1989, a c. di L. Gasperini (Rome: Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1992), 447–501, at 452-455
• K. Bringmann und H. von Steuben, Schenkungen hellenistischer Herrscher an griechische Staedte und Heiligtuemer (Berlin, 1995), at no.306
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Noto greca e romana:fonti storiografiche,epigrafi e pseudo-monete», in Contributi alla geografia storica dell’agro netino. Atti delle Giornate di Studio. Noto, Palazzo Trigona, 29-31 maggio 1998, a c. di F. Balsamo e V. La Rosa (Rosolini, 2001), 73–96, at 78 no. I, fig. 4
• F. Ferruti, «L’attività di Ierone II a favore dei ginnasi», in Nuove prospettive della ricerca sulla Sicilia del III sec. a.C. Archeologia, Numismatica, Storia, a c. di M. Caccamo Caltabiano, L. Campagna, e A. Pinzone, Pelorias 11 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2004), 191–212, at 191-193 fig.1
• Alessandra Inglese, «Noto, città ieroniana», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, a c. di T. Alfieri Tonini e S. Struffolino, Aristonothos Quaderni 4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 93–104, at 94-95

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova
• Giorgia Capra
• Robert Crellin

Last revision

10/15/2025