ISic001131: I.Sicily inscription 001131
- ID
- ISic001131
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- Unknown
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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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
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- remains of three lines of monumental letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Reported by Castelli to have letters 'semicubitalis' in size, so approx. 20cm?
- 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 - 51 BC)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- 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 287 cl.18 no.40
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5576
- 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 312
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021