ISic001112: I.Sicily inscription 001112

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
ISic001112
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
honorific
Object type
block
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of I.Segesta

Physical description

Support

Description
A block of stone, rounded and chipped on the left side, broken on the right side, probably originally in form of a rounded tabula ansata.
Object type
block
Material
limestone
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 39 cmwidth: 74 cmdepth: 27 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Line 1-6: 30-35mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
Found c.1810 in the ruins of ancient Segesta (precise findspot not documented).

Current location

Place
Calatafimi, Italy
Repository
Biblioteca comunale Calatafimi Segesta
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

On palaeographic grounds, datable to the C3 or C2 BCE; but this inscription, together with several others almost certainly belongs in the context of the monumental stoa of the later second century BCE. (150 BC – 100 BC)
Evidence
archaeological-context

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