ISic001262: I.Sicily inscription 001262
- ID
- ISic001262
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- seat
- Text type
- seat inscription
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- seat
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 105.4 cm, depth: 31 cm
Material
- Description
- massive light grey limestone with peloids and white veins, likely DOA (grainstone with peloids and sparitic calcite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.polishable.grey > calcare_grigio_SiciliaOR
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 117mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Theatre, currently under the scaenae
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Teatro Greco Romano di Taormina
- Autopsy
- 2008.09.29
Date
2nd century BCE (palaeographic) (200 BCE - 101 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492868
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101630
- PHI: 140750
- Printed editions
- G. De Spuches, «Illustrazione dâalcune epigrafi e dâaltri oggetti archeologici», Bullettino della Commissione di AntichitĂ e belle arti in Sicilia 1 (1864): 12â17, at 13
- 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 437.2
- Otto Hoffmann, âDie Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbelâ, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5233
- âSupplementum Epigraphicum Graecumâ, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1132
- Alessia Dimartino, «Ierone II, Filistide e il teatro greco di Taormina. Note in margine a IG XIV, 437», in Immagine e immagini della Sicilia e di altre isole del Mediterraneo antico, a c. di C. Ampolo, vol. 2, 2 voll. (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2009), 721â26, at 722 no. a
- Alessia Dimartino, «Iscrizioni del teatro di Taormina», Axon 1, fasc. 1 (2017): 301â7, https://doi.org/10.14277/2532-6848/Axon-1-1-17-29, at testo a
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025