ISic001130: Honours for the gymnasiarch Antallos
- ID
- ISic001130
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo controlled against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque of Sicilian white limestone, intact except at the upper right corner.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 41.5 cm, width: 67.5 cm, depth: 7.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Seven lines of Greek letters, filling the face, with a regular left margin, the final line approximately centred; the text is engraved by means of individual dots punched with a rounded tool.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1 - 7: 40-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Soluntum
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations of the so-called 'Gymnasium' (a private house) in 1865, at Solunto
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8809
- Autopsy
- On display on the wall of the courtyard of the Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- Map
Date
Later second or earlier first century BCE (150 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- F. Ritschl, ‘Griechische Inschriften aus Sicilien’, Rheinisches Museum 21 (1866): 137–42, at 139 no.3
- S. Cavallari, «Scavi e scoperte. Posizione topografica di Solunto», Bullettino della Commissione di Antichità e belle arti di Sicilia 8 (1875): 1–10, at 3
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5197
- 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 14.0311
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1102
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0964
- M. Launey, Recherches sur les armées hellénistiques (Paris, 1950), at 1007
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 114
- Olivier Masson, « De la Sicile à l’Égypte: les noms ORNIXAS, ORNITHAS et le substantif ORNITHAS », Chronique d’Égypte 97 (1974): 175‑78.
- R.J.A. Wilson, ‘Towns of Sicily during the Roman Empire’, Aufstieg Und Niedergang Der Romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 90–206, at 191
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 43 fig.33, 360 n.92
- G. Cordiano, La ginnasiarchia nelle «poleis» dell’occidente mediterraneo antico, Studi e testi di storia antica 7 (Pisa, 1997), at 70-72
- Elisa Chiara Portale, «Problemi dell’archeologia della Sicilia ellenistico-romana: il caso di Solunto», Archeologia Classica 57 (2006): 49–114, at 87-98
- J.R.W. Prag, ‘Auxilia and Gymnasia: A Sicilian Model of Roman Republican Imperialism’, Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007): 68–100, at 86
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/23/2021