ISic001257: Fragment of a decree pertaining to the gymnasion
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- ID
- ISic001257
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Arangio-Ruiz and Olivieri
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described as a 'tabella marmorea' by Kaibel (after Benndorf), seemingly broken on all sides. It is impossible to know whether it was actually a true marble plaque, or rather a plaque of the local fine Taormina limestone, which can be polished and is employed for the other gymnasium and civic inscriptions. The fact that it is a plaque, rather than a block or stele, in contrast to all the other surviving pieces, might encourage the idea that it was indeed a plaque of imported marble.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: 2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Recorded in Taormina in the 19th century, but not seen more recently.
Current location
Lost.
Date
2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Generally construed as part of a decree pertaining to the establishment of the gymnasion.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492863
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101625
- PHI: 140745
- PHI: 329621
- Printed editions
- 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 432
- Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5230
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0058
- A. Olivieri, «Unti», Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica di filologia - lingua - antichità 7, fasc. 3–4 (1923): 7-10 = 169-172, at 9-10=171-172
- V. Arangio Ruiz and A. Olivieri, Inscriptiones graecae Siciliae et infimae Italiae ad ius pertinentes (Milan, 1925), at 133-136 no. 15
- K. Latte, ‘Review of V. Arangio-Ruiz and A. Olivieri, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et infimae Italiae ad ius pertinentes’, Gnomon 3 (1927): 368–77, at 371
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 187
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/23/2025