ISic001085: I.Sicily inscription 001085
- ID
- ISic001085
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on drawing from Crispi 1831;
- 1: The fifth character is depicted simply as a rectangle in Crispi's drawing
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Crispi as 'una lapide sepolcrale di pietra dura', of oblong shape, seemingly intact but with some damage to the upper left corner and left edge of the text depicted in the published drawing, which latter suggests some form of stele. Described by Crispi as 5.5 palms tall, 2 palms wide, and more than 1 palm deep. A Sicilian palm in the earlier 19th century was approximately 24.2 cm in length.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 133.1 cm, width: 48.4 cm, depth: 25 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek letters seemingly aligned to the left edge of the stone, at the very top of one of the wider faces of the stele.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Very open four-bar sigma, and alpha with a right descending oblique bar that reaches to the foot of the right stroke. The letters appear archaic from the drawing.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hippana
- Provenance found
- Described as coming from the necropolis on the north side of the ancient site on Montagna dei Cavalli, by Crispi 1831, without further details.
Current location
Lost.
Date
Seemingly archaic (C6-C5 BCE) from the lettering. (600 BC - 401 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Given the lack of any subsequent reference to this piece, it must be assumed to be lost; Kaibel only recorded it on the basis of the publication of Giuseppe Crispi in 1831.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492714
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102243
- PHI: 140568
- Printed editions
- Giuseppe Crispi, «Spiegazione d’una epigrafe greca sepolcrale trovata in Ippana antica città della Sicilia», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 34 (1831): 71–74, at 71-74 figs 1-2
- 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 266
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/17/2024