ISic001179: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001179
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Gualtherus and Castelli
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Castelli, Principe di Torremuzza (1753: 147) notes that the stone was damaged on all sides
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: unknown cm, width: unknown cm, depth: unknown cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains to two lines of Greek letters, damaged at both ends (?)
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: unknownmm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: unknownmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Dug up from the ruins of Halaesa (according to Torremuzza)
Current location
- Place
- lost, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- Recorded as beside the great door in the front of the Church of S. Maria dei Palazzi by Gualtherus, 1621-1624.
Date
Kaibel speculates that it is 'aetatis fortasse Byzantinae'! (?) (AD 300 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Gualtherus records the sigmas in line 2 and the epsilon in line 1 as lunate (and he is followed by Castelli) and, assuming that this is an accurate record of what he saw, suggests a date of the imperial or late antique period. Kaibel speculated that it might be a verse text of the Byzantine period, reading τόνδε ποικίλ[ον] at the end of line 1, but despaired of interpretation. In similar vein, if correct, [-]υατον could be the end of a transliterated Latin name such as Torquatus, but the difficulty is that it is entirely possible that some of the letters are wrongly transcribed.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492784
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102333
- PHI: 140662
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no.297
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Storia di Alesa, antica città di Sicilia (Palermo: Stamperia de SS. Appostoli in Piazza Vigliena, presso Pietro Bentivenga, 1753), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1763, at 146 no.4
- 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.27
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5599
- 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 14.0357
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.50
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021