ISic001126: I.Sicily inscription 001126
- ID
- ISic001126
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon Torremuzza, with considerable uncertainty about the extent of the lacunae; similar restoration in Kaibel
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Torremuzza describes simply as a Greek funerary inscription, broken in its two extremities, meaning the left and right sides (almost certainly therefore a plaque). As Kaibel observes, the loss is not large on each side, potentially less (especially on the right) than suggested by Torremuzza, only a few letters in each case. No measurements or other details are recorded.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Sicilia
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Torremuzza 1762 in the museum of the Collegio di Studi of the Jesuits, Palermo.
Current location
Lost
Date
Appears to have the distinctive Sicilian formula of 'chrestos kai amemptos', age in years and a family dedicant, indicating Roman imperial period. (AD 1 – AD 400)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
A funerary inscription with probably a Greek name such as Diogenes (plus filiation?) in the first line, the typical Sicilian formula 'chrestos kai amemptos' in lines 2-3, age at death in years, and then reference to erection of the inscription by the deceased's mother. As Kaibel notes, the gaps would appear to be small, and the implication is that the gaps at the start of the line are of variable length, as well as at line end. The 'chrestos kai amemptos' formula is distinctively Sicilian, but primarily attested in Syracusae and Catina (from Palermo, compare ISic001119, which however, like this text, is not explicitly attested as being found in Palermo. In both cases therefore, an eastern Sicilian provenance cannot be ruled out.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492739
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102283
- PHI: 140611
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo (Palermo, 1762), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1762, at 53 no.103 and p.374
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.18 no.30
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl. 18 no.30
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5575
- 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 14.0307
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 4/22/2024