ISic001089: I.Sicily inscription 001089
- ID
- ISic001089
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Capital/upper part of a roughly square base, originally supporting an offering (as indicated by the carved hollow in the upper surface). A substantial cornice projects around the upper part of the base. Below on one flat face (W 36 cm) is a three line inscription. The surface was covered with a white stucco, of which traces remain.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- tufa limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 46.5 cm, depth: 37.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek, engraved immediately below the cornice on one face, with consistent left margin.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 10-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found in 1874 in the Malophoros sanctuary in Gaggera, Selinunte, in front of the 'propylon'.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8785
- Autopsy
- Photograph only, no formal autopsy
- Map
Date
Mid 5th century BCE (500 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- S. Cavallari, «Scavi e scoperte. Rinvennimento di un tempio all’occidente del Selinus», Bullettino della Commissione di Antichità e belle arti di Sicilia 7 (1874): 1–32, at 13 tav.5
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 3048
- 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 14.0270
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1274
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0971
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 27.0660
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 14.0594
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 53
- C. Gallavotti, «Scritture della Sicilia ed altre epigrafi arcaiche», Helikon 17 (1977): 97–136, at 103
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 55
- 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.38
- 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 40-42 no.7 fig.13
- C. Grotta, Zeus Meilichios a Selinunte (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2010), at 8-9 tav.1b
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025