ISic001127: I.Sicily inscription 001127
- ID
- ISic001127
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon the engraving prepared by Castelli, Principe di Torremuzza;
- line.3: Kaibel proposes Π for the age, but it is not clear on what basis; as Castelli observes, iota is clear; Muratori reported Κ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Slightly unevenly laid out over 6 lines (Castelli provides an engraving, to emphasise that the presentation of Muratori is misleading)
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Somewhat irregular and variable letters, thinly cut without serifs. alpha has broken bar; beta two approximately even, usually closed eyes; epsilon straight and bars of equal lengths; zeta has curving lower stroke; kappa has full length arms; mu has mid-strokes that start and finish below the top of the verticals and only descend partway; nu is reversed in line 6; rho is both angular and circular; sigma is lunate; omega is lunate.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Enna
- Provenance found
- Found during excavation of the foundations for the monastery of the Cappucini, May 1733, Enna, from where it was transported to Palermo and the Museum of San Martino.
- Map
Current location
now lost
Date
later Roman period (AD 201 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Muratori's edition on three lines is condemned by Castelli, Principe di Torremuzza, and the latter's engraving forms the basis for the current edition. The inscription was transferred to the Museum of San Martino, but does not seem to have passed from there to the Palermo museum and is now lost.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492740
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102284
- PHI: 140612
- Printed editions
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum in praecipuis earumdem collectionibus hactenus praetermissarum, collectore Ludovico Antonio Muratorio .... Tomus tertius.., vol. 3, 1740, http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Muratori1740Vol3, at 1763, cl.23, no.17
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo (Palermo, 1762), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1762, at p.36 no.66 and p.310-313
- 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.14 no.20
- 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.14 no.22
- CIG Franz (1853) at 5746
- Antonino Salinas, Catalogo del Museo dell’ex-Monastero di S. Martino delle Scale, presso Palermo (Palermo: Tip. Morvillo, 1870), at 17 no.87
- 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 308
- Rosanna Equizzi, Palermo : San Martino delle Scale : la collezione archeologica : storia della collezione e catalogo della ceramica, Studia archaeologica 148 (Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2006), at 132 and fig. 52
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/23/2021