ISic001390: Greek funerary(?) inscription of Nikaios
- ID
- ISic001390
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from Gualtherus 1624
Physical description
Support
- Description
- The stone is one of three described as 'petra nigra' by Gualtherus (1624: 50), but neither state of conservation nor dimensions are recorded.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- volcanic
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is presented as split over three lines
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Adranon
- Provenance found
- Described by Gualtherus (1624) as coming from the ruins popularly identified with the shrine of the god Hadranus (not identified). All later editions derive from Gualtherus.
Current location
Lost.
Date
A date in the period 4th — 1st century BCE seems most likely, but it is impossible to be certain in the absence of further information (400 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The stone is presented in the edition of Gualtherus (1624, p.50 nr. 338) under the same heading as no.4 above, and so the same report appears to apply, namely ‘petra nigra’, state of conservation and dimensions not recorded; it is said to have come from the ruins popularly equated with the site of the temple of the local divinity Adranos. The text was not included in Torremuzza 1769 or 1784. It is not clear why Kaibel (IG XIV, 571) says ‘admodum recens reperta’, i.e. only recently recovered.
The name Νίκαιος is common, although not in Sicily, where there is only one other attested example, probably from Syracuse.
It is impossible to date this text, in the absence of further information, although it is most likely to belong to the Hellenistic period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493005
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101517
- PHI: 140897
- 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 50 no. 338
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5740
- 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 14.0571
- S. P. Russo, Illustrazione storico-archeologica di Adernò (Atesa, 1911), at 59
- J.R.W. Prag, «Epigrafia», in Museo Regionale Saro Franco di Adrano. Le Collezioni Archeologiche, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Nicola Franceso Neri, vol. 2, 3 voll. (Palermo: Regione siciliana, 2015), 315–30, at 319 no. D
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 2/17/2022