ISic001338: Boundary stone (?)

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001338
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
terminus
Object type
unknown
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Gualtherus

Physical description

Support

Description
The object is not described in the surviving transcriptions
Object type
unknown
Material
stone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
By analogy with other known texts, the text may have been divided over two lines; a line is marked above the first three letters in the edition of Gualtherus
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
Gualtherus provides the only record of this text, described as recorded by one 'Fran. Bella', 'in agro Catanensi'

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

(?) (Unknown – Unknown)
Evidence
No data

Text type

terminus

commentary

The only record of this text is that of Gualtherus 1624, reporting a text noted by one 'Fran. Bella'. The form of the text, including the line above the first three letters, is identical to the second and third lines of ISic001404, preserved in Adrano museum, and from the right bank of the Simeto river (see that text for further commentary). The spacing in the text of Gualtherus, and the presence of the line above the first three letters, encourages the idea that the text was on a boundary stone, in large letters, divided over two lines, as in the case of the Adrano stone. A second, very similar text (ISic004424) was recorded by Gualtherus, and both are repeated in CIG and IG. Manganaro (1994) briefly discusses these texts, and argues that they should be considered distinct from the set of texts preserved in the manuscript collection of Gaetano Marini, from Sferri, in the territory of Paterno, and reproduced by several scholars, including Ferrua 1989, p. 123-124 nr. 471 (ISic004425, ISic004426, ISic004427); the second and third of those texts (ISic004426 and ISic004427) are similar to this one, but seemingly not identical. The only text actually preserved is ISic001404 in Adrano museum.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021