ISic001189: Haluntium honours the son of Timandros

Apparatus criticus

• Text based upon autopsy;
• 2: Salinas: [Κ]ίωτον; Kaibel: [Β]ίωτον; lapis: trace of upper eye of Β (contra Salinas, trace of K).

Physical description

Support

Description

Quadrangular statue block, cut down across the top and with some damage to the left and right sides.

Object type

base

Material

limestone

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 53 cm, width: 48 cm, depth: 47 cm

Inscription

Layout

Three lines of ancient Greek. The first line is partially lost across the top, the second and third are damaged at the left and right margins.

Text condition

deteriorated

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

The letters are wide, well spaced and regular in form, and deeply incised. Alpha with straight bar; epsilon has short middle bar; kappa has full length arms; mu has vertical first and last, with middle strokes almost full height; omicron is full size; rho has large rounded head, closed; sigma has parallel top and bottom, and middle strokes almost full width; omega is closed, and slightly tear-drop shaped, with horizontal tails.

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Ε type2
• Ε type2.3
• Ε type2.3.1
• Ε type2.3.2
• Κ type2
• Κ type2.1
• Μ type3
• Μ type3.1
• Ν type2
• Ν type2.2
• Ο type1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.3
• Σ tyoe3.2
• Σ type3
• Υ type2
• Υ type2.1
• Ω type2
• Ω type2.2
• Ω type2.2.1

Letter heights

Line 1-3: 25-30mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: 50mm

Interlineation line 2 to 3: 40mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Haluntium

Provenance found

Original discovery not recorded, first published by Salinas in 1880.

Current location

Place

Palermo, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8815

Autopsy

Quagliana 2022-05-23

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

Notwithstanding the damage, it is clear that there was no ethnic included in the first part of the text, and the inscription appears complete. The name Βίωτος is also attested on tile and amphora stamps from southern Italy; no other form ending -ιωτος is known from the region.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 492795
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 39101553
• PHI: 140673
• PHI: 175638

Printed editions

• Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 194 no. 4
• 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 366
• M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 43
• C. Consani, « Koinai et Koiné dans la documentation épigraphique de l’Italie méridionale », in La Koié grecque antique. II. La concurrence, éd. par C. Brixhe, 1996, 113‑32, at 125

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova
• Norma Quagliana

Last revision

6/16/2022