ISic001122: Dedication to 'Homonoia' (concord)
- ID
- ISic001122
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- base
- Text type
- dedication
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- line.2: Traces of a second line, as read by Manni Piraino, are not obvious in the available photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small rectangular block of limestone, seemingly intact left, right and below, but damaged upper right
- Object type
- base
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 14 cm
Material
- Description
- , likely (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.non-polishable.whitish > calcarenite_ibleiOR, calcarenite_ibleiOCC, calcarenite_SiciliaOR_Centuripe, calcarenite_ibleiOR_pietra_di_Melilli
Inscription
- Layout
- single line of Greek letters across the middle of the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neatly incised letters without serfis: omicron is small and mid-line; mu has vertical first and last strokes, mid-strokes only descend halfway; nu has short diagonal and right vertical; alpha is broad with broken bar; sigma is incomplete but may have slightly open top and bottom strokes
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 20-56mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 8782
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd century ? (300 BCE - 201 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- 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 302
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 12
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Homonoia dei Kimissaioi, Eunomia dei Geloi e la ninfa (termitana) Sardo», in Spudasmata, Studien Kl. Phil. 69, Festschrift E. Olshausen zum 60 Geburtstag, a c. di U. Fellmeth e H. Sonnabend (Hildesheim, Zurich, 1998), 131–42, at 137 n.28
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025