ISic001337: Fragment of an inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG after Carrera
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A square block of black stone.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- basalt
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 1634 “in alcune rovine del Corso” (Carrera 1639, 290).
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Hellenistic or Roman? (300 BCE - CE 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The stone is too fragmentary to allow any firm conclusions regarding its content. Carrera (1639, 290), however, believed that he could identify a reference to the war between the Catanians and the Libyans.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492945
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101710
- PHI: 140834
- Printed editions
- Pietro Carrera, Delle Memorie Historiche della CittĂ di Catania spiegate in tre volumi. Volume primo., vol. 1, 3 voll. (Catania: Giovanni Rossi, 1639), at 290
- 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 517
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026