ISic001087: I.Sicily inscription 001087
- ID
- ISic001087
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large block of yellow tuff, broken in 8 pieces when found, subsequently restored and set together in plaster. Most of the block is preserved, damaged at the left and right ends, with some of the left half of the face and lower edge missing. The inscribed field (108 cm wide) is cut back from the right and left margins; the upper surface is finished with traces of clamp holes for the fitting of a block above. The rear is uneven.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- tuff (yellow)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 43.5 cm, width: 139.5 cm, depth: 24.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- 11 lines of Greek, filling the finished recessed field from the top and extending fully to both margins, with vacat at the end of the last line and below.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1-11: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found by Cavallari in 1871 in the left anta of the entrance to the adyton of Temple G (Zeus), Selinunte
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8753
- Autopsy
- On display, ground floor, Palermo archaeological museum
- Map
Date
475—450 BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Holm, «Iscrizione trovata nel tempio grande di Selinunte», Bullettino della Commissione di Antichità e belle arti di Sicilia 4 (1871): 27–34, at ph
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1997.0729
- 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 14.0268
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1116
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1100
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 53.1030
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 50.0989
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1328
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1271
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.2302
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1414
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 43.0628
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0960
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0970
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 33.0933
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 32.0933
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 27.0659
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 15.0595
- Carl Darling Buck, The Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected Inscriptions, Glossary (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), at 295 no.98
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 49
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 78
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.53
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Studi di epigrafia siceliota», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 9.7 (1996): 27–63, at 33-38 no.5 fig.9-10
- Antonietta Brugnone, «L’iscrizione del Tempio G di Selinunte e le tradizioni sui responsi oracolari delfici», in Sicilia Epigraphica, a c. di M. I. Gulletta, vol. 1, 2 voll. (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 1999), 129–39.
- Luciano Agostiniani, «Alfabetizzazione della Sicilia pregreca», Aristonothos 4 (2012): 139–64, at 140-141 fig.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025