ISic001432: Base for Eukleidas
- ID
- ISic001432
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large fragment of a limestone base, with a moulding around the lower section (of archaic type). Much of the front left corner is lost, and the rear right, and the upper part is entirely lost. The inscribed face is 10.5cm H by 15 cm W.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Part of a single line of letters across one face of the base.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deep square letters, epsilon with three equal bars, perpendicular, lambda of standard form, upsilon without tail (V).
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 15-18mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Himera
- Provenance found
- Found in exacvation on 4 May 1965 in front of the NE corner of Temple B, at a depth of 1.49m, at the level of the temple's foundations. Formerly in the Palermo museum, now in the Himera antiquarium.
Current location
- Place
- Himera, Italy
- Repository
- Parco Archeologico di Himera e Antiquarium , H.65.36
- Autopsy
- observed in the Himera Museum 2023
- Map
Date
mid-5th century BCE (475 BC - 425 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Whether the name was in the Doric form (Eukleidas) or not, cannot be determined. The name is that of one of the three founders (oikists) of Himera (Thucydides VI.5.1) and so would seem to attest to a cult of the founder(s) and a base/statue in his honour.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285049
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900779
- PHI: 175611
- Printed editions
- Association pour lâencouragement des Ă©tudes greques, « Bulletin Ă©pigraphique », Revue des Ă©tudes grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1971.0764
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Le iscrizioni», in Himera I. Campagne di scavo 1963-1965, a c. di A. Adriani et al. (Rome: «LâErma» di Bretschneider, 1970), 343â56, at 347-349 no.6 fig.17
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 17
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de SicileâŻ: contribution Ă lâĂ©tude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 12
- Brugnone (2017) at 37
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/19/2025