ISic001131: I.Sicily inscription 001131

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
ISic001131
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
Unknown
Object type
unknown
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based upon Castelli and Franz

Physical description

Support

Description
described only as a 'stone broken on both sides' by Castelli, no further information available.
Object type
unknown
Material
stone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cmwidth: cmdepth: cm

Inscription

Layout
remains of three lines of monumental letters
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-3: 200mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Soluntum
Provenance found
Dug up in 1771 from the ruins of ancient Soluntum

Current location

Supposedly transported to the museum at Palermo, it was seemingly already lost in Kaibel's time

Date

2nd or earlier 1st century BCE? Likely to belong to the late Hellenistic monumentalising phase of the city (200 BC – 50 BC)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

Unknown

commentary

As Kaibel notes, the letters of line 1 are also likely to be part of a name. The monumental size of the letters strongly suggests a building inscription from an architrave or similar (compare, e.g., ISic003330 from Halaesa), although the vertical arrangement over three lines is not so readily compatible with this.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021