ISic001105: I.Sicily inscription 001105
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- ID
- ISic001105
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Gualtherus 1624 [1625], reproduced by Crispi;
- 1: Gualtherus 1624 (after Cordici?) transcribed: ΩΙΧΛΔΟLIILIXL
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Crispi, after Cordice, as 'una lista di viva selce intagliata', fallen from an architrave of the door or gate of a building known locally at the time as 'the pool of Apollo'. 'Flint' (selce) seems improbable. No further description is provided.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of difficult to read letters.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Seemingly Greek characters, including an open omega, but also what appears to be a Latin L
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Eryx
- Provenance found
- Described by Antonio Cordici (17th century) as found in the area of the so-called 'pool of Apollo', thought to be an ancient temple, in the vicinity of the church of S.Antonio Abate.
Current location
Lost.
Date
(?) (Unknown - Unknown)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
There is some uncertainty among earlier authors whether the text is even ancient Greek, although on balance of probability it would seem to be so.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492724
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102263
- PHI: 140589
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 257
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 23 no. 157
- Giuseppe Crispi, «Interpretazione di una epigrafe ad piscinam Apollonis del monte Erice», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 9 (1825): 187–90, at 187-190
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5500
- 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 286
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/17/2024