ISic001439: I.Sicily inscription 001439
- ID
- ISic001439
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- epigram
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1996 (IGASM I)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Cippus of white limestone, parallelipede in form, broken below, but with the text well preserved.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 27.5 cm, depth: 12.75 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 20-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found 24 April 1889 1.75 m west of tomb 223, 0.5m below the surface, in Orsi's excavation of the western necropolis
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 7735
- Autopsy
- 04.10.13 observed only in Depositi, Mag B
- Map
Date
Beginnning 5th century BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644982
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64800232
- PHI: 329628
- PHI: 330082
- Printed editions
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5241
- Paolo Orsi, «Megara Hyblaea. Storia - topografia - necropoli e anathemata», Monumenti Antichi 1 (1890): 689–950, at 787 no.2 pl.4.1
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1091
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0065
- Guido Libertini, Il regio museo archeologico di Siracusa, Guide dei musei italiani (Roma: La Libreria dello stato, 1929), at 124
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.28
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at 1.315-316 no.6
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 148 no.12
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 27
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.28
- 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.7
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 4, p. 19
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025