ISic001179: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001179
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- edited
- Links
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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
- Object 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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Gualtherus records the sigmas in line 2 and the epsilon in line 1 as lunate (and he is followed by Castelli)
- 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 301 - 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 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 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 357
- 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
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021