ISic001189: Haluntium honours the son of Timandros
- ID
- ISic001189
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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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
- Lettering
-
- 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
1st century BCE (100 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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 14.0366
- 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
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Norma Quagliana
- system
- Last revision
- 6/16/2022