ISic001275: I.Sicily inscription 001275

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

Object condition

No data

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

No data

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Gualtherus reports rhomboid omicron alongside standard four-bar sigma and quadrate epsilon

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

Evidence

lettering

Text type

dedication

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 and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 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 450
• ‘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
• Simona Stoyanova
• Giorgia Capra

Last revision

6/25/2025