ISic001258: Dedication of an altar for Hestia
- ID
- ISic001258
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- draft
- 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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neat and regular letters without serfis (but slight terminal marks to the strokes). Alpha with straight cross bar, beta with equal closed eyes, epsilon with short middle stroke, theta slightly ovoid with detached middle bar, kappa with short arms, mu with almost vertical first and last, and three-quarter mid-strokes; xsi with three horizontal bars, lowest the longest; omicron smaller and mid-line, pi with equal vertical strokes; rho rounded closed eye; sigma with very slightly open top and bottom strokes; phi with round eye, slightly extended vertical; omega mostly circular, slightly open, short horizontal feet.
Types
- Α type1
- Α type1.3
- Β type2
- Β type2.1
- Β type2.2
- Ε type2
- Ε type2.3
- Ε type2.3.1
- Ε type2.3.2
- Θ type2
- Θ type2.2
- Κ type1
- Κ type1.1
- Μ type3
- Μ type3.1
- Ν type1
- Ν type1.2
- Ν type2
- Ν type2.2
- Ξ type1
- Ξ type2
- Ξ type2.1
- Ο type1
- Ο type1.2
- Ο type2
- Π type1
- Π type1.1
- Π type1.2
- Ρ type1
- Ρ type1.1
- Σ tyoe3.2
- Σ type3
- Σ type3.1
- Υ type2
- Υ type2.1
- Φ type2
- Φ type2.1
- Ω type2
- Ω type2.2
- Ω type2.2.1
- 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 - 101 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
- 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 433
- SGDI Hoffmann (1904) at 5231
- ‘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
- Last revision
- 3/27/2024