ISic001430: Dedication by Theullos
- ID
- ISic001430
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Base of brown tuff, broken into many fragments and reconstructed. Upper portion only survives, lower part lost on all sides. Square in form, with one face inscribed. A simple moulding/cornice projects above the face, surrounding the top on all sides. A substantial irregular hollow (4cm deep) on the upper face shows where the dedication once stood on top.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- tuff (brown)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17.6 cm, width: 39.8 cm, depth: 50.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek on the top of one face, beginning immediately below the moulding. Consistent left margin, irregular right margin, vacat after final letters of line 5.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found 13 April 1889 in the sanctuary at Gaggera, in the south angle of the so-called temenos of Hecate.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8752
- Autopsy
- photographed on display in the Palermo museum, but no formal autopsy
- Map
Date
475—450 BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 209-210
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5213
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1116
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 47.1457
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1272
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 32.0932
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 18.0410
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 12.0411
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 277 no.42
- Margherita Guarducci, «Note di epigrafia selinuntina arcaica», Kokalos 12 (1966): 179–99, at 190
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Segnalazioni di epigrafia greca», Kokalos 14–15, fasc. 195–196 (1969 1968).
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 56
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 54
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 277 no.42
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.39
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Studi di epigrafia siceliota», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 9.7 (1996): 27–63, at 38-40 no.6 fig. 12
- Renato Arena, «Ancora su ΕΥΡΑΝ nella dedica di Selinunte alla Malophoros», La Parola del Passato 52 (1997): 418–20.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025