ISic001486: I.Sicily inscription 001486
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- ID
- ISic001486
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described as a block of the local stone ('arenaria') from Monte Rosso by Mingazzini. the block appears largly intact, but with a break across the face
- Object type
- block
- Material
- sandstone
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 50 cm, width: 130 cm, depth: 50 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Boustrophedon across the upper part of the face, with a dividing line/ledge between the two lines.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 40-90mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kakyron
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations in the 1930s by Mingazzini, in re-use in 'Tower A' of a section of fourth-century BCE fortification, along with a second inscription.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Ravanusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Salvatore Lauricella
- Autopsy
- Observed 2015.07.23 Metcalfe
- Map
Date
End of 6th century BCE, beginning 5th century BCE (550 BC - 451 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493905
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 41300034
- PHI: 175632
- Printed editions
- Mingazzini (1937) at 663-665 (b) fig.23
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 278 no.58 pl.53
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «intervento», Kokalos 10–11 (1965 1964): 481–84, at 482 tav.31.4
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 37
- Gallavotti (1975) at 103-105
- Federica Cordano, «Sakon, un antroponimo importante nella Sicilia antica», La Parola del Passato 39 (1984): 136–39, at 137-138 no.2
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 165
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 278 no.58 pl.53
- Siracusano (1996) at 89 n.7, tav.49.8
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at no.101
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/12/2025