ISic001079: I.Sicily inscription 001079
- ID
- ISic001079
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- louterion
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Schubring/IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble louterion stand, in the typical form of a fluted column.
- Object type
- louterion
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Inscribed around the foot of the louterion stand.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Phintias
- Provenance found
- Variously said in different publications to be found in 1768, 1778 and 1788, on the 'monte di Licata', near the convent of the PP. Cappuccini (the modern cemetery), by one Caolgero Galetto, together with ruins of a mosaci pavement, and a statuette of the same stone. Acquired by Baron Vincenzo Trigona Rabugino, and preserved by his descendants.
Current location
- Place
- Licata, Italy
- Repository
- In private hands (family Trigona)
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Almost certainly a late 18th-century fake (AD 1768 – AD 1800)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This text is almost certainly late 18th or early 19th century forgery, as elegantly demonstrated by Pareti: the very peculiar forms of the letters and the fact that the part of the text recording an eponym almost exactly copies a Rhodian amphora stamp found in approximately the same year at Licata are the principle arguments. The context for the forgery would seem to be the efforts and rivalry of local antiquarians at the time of discovery of the (genuine) louterion. (Note that Carita wrongly references it as IG XIV.258.). Carita provides photographs, but not of the first part of the text. It is misleadingly placed on two lines by Schubring.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492707
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102236
- PHI: 140561
- Printed editions
- J. Schubring, ‘Historisch-geographische Studien über Altsicilien. Gela. Phintias. Die südlichen Sikeler’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 28 (1873): 65–140, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23216126, at 75
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1959.0288
- 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 14.0259
- Luigi Pareti, Studi siciliani ed italioti: con tre tavole, Contributi alla scienza dell’antichità 1 (Firenze: B. Seeber, 1914), at 214-220, tav.III
- C. Carità, Le iscrizioni di Gela trovate a Licata, 2nd ed. (Palermo: Arti Grafiche Siciliane, 1978), at 17-20 figs. 3-5
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
- 6/12/2023