ISic001073: I.Sicily inscription 001073
- ID
- ISic001073
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- rock-cut tomb
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi; texts of CIG, IG, Wessel, Paci all derived from Bergk;
- line.1: Bergk: ΤΕΛ....ΤΕΣΕΝ
- line.2: Bergk: ΚΑΛ/ΝΑΩΝ (two dots are marked under the second alpha)
- line.3: Bergk: ΡΕΝΙΙΙΟΙΣ
- line.4: Orsi: Τ....Υ; Bergk: Τ/..ν
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- rock-cut tomb
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cava d'Ispica
- Provenance found
- First transcription appears to be sent by letter on 8 June from Siracusa by one Dr Schubart to T. Bergk of the Zeitschrift fur Alterthumswissenschaft, from the caves of Cava d'Ispica
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Modica, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
The material from cava d'Ispica is bounded by two dated texts, of 398 CE and 468 CE, and these provide approximate lower and upper limits to the likely range (so Paci) (AD 380 – AD 480)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
All published editions are based upon the text presented by Bergk in 1843 based upon a transcription sent by letter to him by his friend Herr Dr Schubart, from Syracuse on 8 June 1843. However, the Taccuini of Paolo Orsi include a transcription of the same text, based upon a note sent to Orsi on or before 19 December 1888 (the date of the entry in the Taccuino) by the director of the Siracusa Liceo, prof. Gb. dal Lago, described as copied by him on the rock of a grotta in cava d'Ispica. A comparison of the versions presented by Bergk and Orsi strongly suggests that Orsi's correspondent was better able to read the traces on the stone, since the transcription which Orsi reproduces (described by him as a 'rozzo apografo') includes letters either omitted or imperfectly read in Bergk's text, and clarifies the attempted conjectures of later editors. Kirchoff's proposal (followed by Paci) of Σελήνης in place of πένπτοις (for πέμπτης) seems entirely unwarranted. The initial word is perhaps the remains of a personal name ending in -ιγενις, although such names are rare.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492700
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102228
- PHI: 140553
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9522
- T. Bergk, ‘Inschriften aus den Sicilischen Cyclopenhoehlen’, Zeitschrift für die Alterthumswissenschaft 1, no. 85 (1843): 673–80, at 675 no. IV
- 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 14.0253
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0928
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 497
- G. Paci, «Iscrizioni da Cava Ispica», in Da abitato in abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei, a c. di F.P. Rizzo, Seia 8-9 (2003-2004) (Pisa: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2005), 19–34, at no.7
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 94
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 6/9/2021