ISic001256: Dedication to the holy goddesses

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; Photo L. Campagna 2005-03-31
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; Photo L. Campagna 2005-03-31
ID
ISic001256
Status
draft
Language
Ancient Greek
Object type
block
Text type
dedication

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Physical description

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Description
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Object type
block
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Material

Description
Coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian, Thasian-3. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype
stone.marble > Aphrodisian, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian, Thasian-3

Inscription

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Technique
chiselled
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Provenance

Place of origin
Tauromenium
Provenance found
First recorded by D'Orville in his Sicula, on the basis of travels in the 1720s, but edited posthumously 1764; seen in the house of Giovanni Battista la Caniola in Taormina; subsequently in the collection of the Duca di Santo Stefano; reproduced by Torremuzza on the basis of D'Orville's edition; seen by Kaibel; now in the antiquarium.

Current location

Place
Taormina, Sicilia
Repository
Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
Autopsy
none
Map

Date

1st century BCE — 1st century CE (?) (100 BCE - CE 100)
Evidence
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Text type

dedication

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/23/2025