ISic001258: Dedication of an altar for Hestia
- ID
- ISic001258
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG checked against photograph;
- 3: Final sigma no longer visible on stone (edge is chipped)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Quadrangular block of stone, damaged around the edges but essentially intact; parts of the face still covered with stucco.
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 67 cm, width: 4.5 cm, depth: 33.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- six lines of Greek letters in a recessed field 23 cm high, with consistent left margin, uneven right margin, at times rather compressed on the right (e.g. line 5), and vacat below.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 13-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in the vicinity of the church of S. Pancrazio in 1861.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico , 8
- Autopsy
- 2006-04, Prag
- Map
Date
3rd or 2nd century BCE, lettering of the early-mid Hellenistic. (300 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492864
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101626
- PHI: 140746
- Printed editions
- F. Ritschl, ‘Griechische Inschriften aus Sicilien’, Rheinisches Museum 21 (1866): 137–42, at 140-142 no.4
- G. Kaibel, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus conlecta (Berolini: G. Reimer, 1878), at no.824a
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5231
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1962.0388
- 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 14.0433
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 40.1594
- G. Sfameni Gasparro, I culti orientali in Sicilia (Leiden: Brill, 1973), at 192-193
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 299
- G. Sfameni Gasparro, « Les cultes isiaques en Sicile », in De Memphis à Rome. Actes du Ier Colloque international sur les études isiaques, Poitiers - Futuroscope, 8-10 avril 1999, éd. par L. Bricault (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 35‑62, at 38-39
- Francesco Muscolino, «San Pancrazio e il Falcone. culti antichi e recenti da Taormina a Naxos. I.», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, Aristonothos, Quaderni 4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 233–35, at 233-244
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Giorgia Capra
- system
- Last revision
- 3/27/2024