ISic001483: I.Sicily inscription 001483
- ID
- ISic001483
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication possibly funerary
- Object type
- base
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1992 (IGASM II)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- an irregular, damaged / cut-down block of stone, originally a votive base.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 87 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 55 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Boustrophedon
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- rubrication, red
- Lettering
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 70mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in secondary deposition, in re-use as construction material in a C4 BCE context, during excavations by Orlandini on the north side of the acropolis.
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela
- Autopsy
- on display
- Map
Date
6th century BCE (600 BC - 501 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Dubois would propose σᾶμα in line 2, rather than e.g. ἄγαλμα, and so make this a funerary inscription rather than a dedication.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285061
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329977
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 61.0742
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 19.0609
- Margherita Guarducci, «Nuove note di epigrafia siceliota arcaica», Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 21–22 (1960 1959): 249–78, at 270 fig.14
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 129
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 1st ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1992), at no.5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025