ISic001196: I.Sicily inscription 001196

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ID: ISic001196
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: block
Status: draft
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of IGPalermo

Physical description

Support

Description: The description as being 'pietra basaltica' of Manni Piraino is implausible, since the photograph shows a compact stone in no way similar to typical Etna lava stone; it must be a dark compact limestone. Likely part of a base originally?
Object type: block
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 37 cm, width: 94 cm, depth: 24-35 cm

Material

Description: limestone

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Neat and large, finely carved letters ('un po irregulare' of Manni Piraino seems unjust). Epsilon with short middle bar; theta, omicron and omega small and above the line; theta with full width horizontal; omega closed and elongated. Sigma wide with horizontal outer strokes.
Letter heights: Line 1: 50-75mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Haluntium
Provenance found: Observed already by Gualtherus in San Marco 'in pariete prope ianuam', subsequently donated to the museum by the town.

Current location

Place: Palermo, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8789
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

It is difficult to follow Manni Piraino's suggested date of the first century CE. The letters have a close similarity to those of the later second century BCE agora inscriptions from Segesta, such as ISic001111.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

12/16/2025