ISic001275: I.Sicily inscription 001275
- ID
- ISic001275
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of CIG (Franz);
- 3: Gualtherus: ΚΑΤΑΝΑ Λ; Manganaro: κατ'[ὄ]να[ρ]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Gualtherus as beneath a ceramic statue 1 cubit high (with a small drawing also)
- Object type
- base
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Gualtherus 1624 as being in the 'foro Trissini', in the possession of Fancisca Caruso
Current location
Lost.
Date
Late hellenistic or Roman imperial on the basis of the letter forms reported. (150 BC – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The text is lost, but recorded by Gualtherus as being on the base of a clay statue one cubit high. There is much debate in the scholarship post-Gualtherus over whether the text and statue was a forgery or genuine. Kaibel and Franz both note that the existence of such a statue, and the accompanying text, at such an early date (pre-1624) is against the idea of a forgery. On the text of line 3, Gualtherus' presentation, is entirely compatible with the proposed reading of Franz and others, of a damaged final line (a gap for the iota, the lambda-like trace being the upper part of a rhomboid omega, and a lacuna following). The only basis for dating would be the limited evidence for letterforms, with rhomboid letters attested on the island from later C2 BCE onwards.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492881
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101644
- PHI: 140764
- PHI: 331811
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no.48
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5649f
- 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 14.0450
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0942
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 68 n.346
- Giuliana Maria Amata, Ricerche epigrafiche sul culto demetriaco in Sicilia (Leonforte: Euno Edizioni, 2016), at 104
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
- 6/25/2025