ISic001286: Part of a base with Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001286
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ferrara;
- 4: Ferrara: ΑΥΖΕΝΤΙΟΝ, but Ζ surely for the crossed Ζ commonly used for ξ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described as a very large fragment of high quality marble, seemingly part of a base, possibly belonging to a monumental structure or building. No measurements are recorded.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- parts of five lines are recorded, but with no indication of the relationship of the text to the preserved surface.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate sigma and epsilon are indicated in Ferrara's transcription.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Ferrara 1829 as part of the collection of Baron Recupero, without further indications of provenance (other than Catania).
Current location
Lost.
Date
Presumably later Roman imperial in date. (AD 201 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492891
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101655
- PHI: 140776
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 383 no.16
- 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 462
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/10/2024