ISic001283: Blocks from a monumental Greek text
- ID
- ISic001283
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.2: Kaibel joins frA with frB and reads Ἀρτ[εμίδωρ]ος
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two blocks of ceramic, presumably belonging to the same text. The surface of (b) is slightly more corroded than that of (a), but the dimensions are very similar.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- fired clay
- Condition
- fragments
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- [object Object]
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but assumed to come from Catania, or elsewhere in eastern Sicily.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania ,
- Autopsy
- 2006.04
- Map
Date
later third to early first century BCE (250 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The two fragments belong to a monumental inscription. The technique is peculiar and requires further study as to whether the letters were formed pre-firing or afterwards: the deep square profile suggests pre-firing, but also the possibility that the blocks were either used as moulds or that the letters were filled with another material. It is unclear why Korhonen suggests that the technique is different between the two blocks. The absence of guidelines on block B is due to the additional corrosion to the surface.
According to Korhonen, the letters ΚΤΙ could be part of κτίσις or of a derived word.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492888
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101652
- PHI: 140773
- PHI: 316194
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5732e (fr.a only)
- Otto Benndorf and Richard Schöne, Die antiken Bildwerke des Lateranensischen Museums (Leipzig, 1867), at 410
- 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 14.0459
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 3
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
- Marta Fogagnolo
- Last revision
- 4/22/2022