ISic001082: I.Sicily inscription 001082
- ID
- ISic001082
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small limestone altar, intact, but with damage to the upper right, subsequently reattached. Mouldings top and bottom on three sides, but the rear is plain. On top a raised rectangular moulding surrounding a deeper recess. The upper moulding on the front face has dentils and incised decoration on its upper part. The epigraphic field on the front face (H 7.5 cm, W 13.5 cm) has a raised border below, left and right, bounded instead on the upper edge by the dentils of the upper moulding.
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 15.5 cm, width: 17 cm, depth: 12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters, all crudely incised in the epigraphic field on the front face.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 6-15mm
- Line 2: 9-16mm
- Line 3: 5-8mm
- Line 4: 6-14mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 9-12mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 5-9mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 2-5mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum
- Provenance found
- Found in localita S. Nicola in 1866 .
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo , C311
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
Potentially lines 1-2 (Hellenistic) predate lines 3-4 (late Hellenistic or Roman) by a century or two. (200 BC – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1968.0607
- 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 14.0262
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 35.0996
- J. De Waele, Acragas Graeca: die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien. 1, Historischer Teil, Archeologische studiën van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, d 3 (’s-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1971), at 33 no.4
- Discussion
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
- 1/19/2021