ISic001271: Dedication of a pavement by Klodianus and Mousa
- ID
- ISic001271
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- votive
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Muscolino;
- 6: Kaibel after Morso: ἐπέθηκαν
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Del Muto refers in intial report to a mosaic found together with an inscription; Carnazza (a Taormina antiquarian) in a contemporary report writes of 'una lapide di marmo in cui sono incise delle lettere greche', found in two rooms adorned with mosaics and marble elements. No further elements of description are provided, but it seems that it constituted part of the pavement. Ferrua's statement that it appears to have been executed in mosaic as part of a pavement is erroneous.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in spring 1810 (prior to 3 April) in excavations conducted by Fagan and Del Muto in Taormina, in the context of ancient baths in 'via Crucis', assumed to be in the area of via Bagnoli Croci, below and to the south of the ancient theatre. Kaibel's statement that it was found in 1823 is a misreading of Morso. Found in two rooms decorated with mosaics and marble decorative elements. Not seen more recently.
- Map
Current location
Lost
Date
later Roman/early Christian on the basis of the formulae. (AD 300 – AD 500)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Muscolino offers a revised reading, based upon a newly discovered apograph of 1810 from the time of the discovery, which diverges from that, based upon a separate apograph, of Morso 1823. Muscolino concludes that the text was incised on a marble plaque as part of a decorative stone floor, rather than being a mosaic text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492878
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101640
- PHI: 140760
- Printed editions
- Salvadore Morso, «Lettera del beneficiale dot. Salvadore Morso ... al sig. D. Agostino Gallo», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 4 (1823): 166–68, at 166-168
- 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 14.0446
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.485
- Francesco Muscolino, «Una probabile iscrizione pavimentale di Taormina (IG, XIV, 446) con la formula ὑπὲρ εὐχῆς», in Atti del XXII Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo studio e la conservazione del mosaico, a c. di Claudia Angelelli, Daniela Massara, e Andrea Paribeni (Tivoli: Edizioni Scripta Manent, 2017), 107–16, at 107-116
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 8/13/2024