ISic001109: I.Sicily inscription 001109

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001109
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Ampolo and Erdas 2019

Physical description

Support

Description
Upper right part of a rectangular plaque of local stone. Part of the upper and right margins are preserved.
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 6 cmwidth: 19 cmdepth: 10.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of two lines of text preserved, with slightly irregular right margin to the lines.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Regular, deeply incised letters, of which alpha the widest. Borken bar alpha; epsilon has shorter middle bar; Mu has vertical first and last, with middle strokes only descending half-way; omicron is small and mid-line; rho is rounded and closed; sigma is regular four bar, with horizontal top and bottom, middle strokes half-width.

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 10-15mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
Recovered from the ruins of the ancient city (so Salinas).

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8827
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/12/2022