ISic001489: Dedication to Hermes

Apparatus criticus

• Text based on autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description

A square block of blue-grey marble with white veins. The block is intact on all sides, but appears to have been broken in half (with a further break in the upper part) at some point in the (modern) past, and repaired. There is minor damage to the top left, top middle and bottom right of the front face. The upper face contains a large square recess centred in relation to the block (30 cm wide x 34 cm front to back, border on left/right is 15 cm; border front/back is 14 cm), parallel to the overall form of the block.

Object type

statue base

Material

marble

Condition

No data

Dimensions

height: 30 cm, width: 64 cm, depth: 57.5 cm

Inscription

Layout

Two lines of Greek letters, across the middle of the front face. The letters are aligned on the left margin, and are arranged in pseudo-stoichedon, i.e. vertically aligned.

Text condition

No data

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Letters of the early Hellenistic or late classical period. Phi has an elliptical eye; alpha has straight bar; omicron is almost full size; sigma has widely diverging top and bottom strokes; theta is smaller than other letters, with a dot in the middle; omega is open; mu has diverging first and last strokes, and the mid-point only descends half-way; epsilon has short middle stroke. Words are separated on both lines by a three vertical points.

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Ε type2
• Ε type2.3
• Ε type2.3.1
• Ε type2.3.2
• Η type1
• Θ type1
• Θ type1.4
• Κ type1
• Κ type1.1
• Λ type2
• Μ type2
• Μ type2.1
• Ν type1
• Ν type1.2
• Ο type1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.1
• Σ type3
• Υ type2
• Υ type2.1
• Φ type2
• Φ type2.2
• Ω type2
• Ω type2.1
• Ω type2.1.1

Letter heights

Line 1: 18-25mm

Line 2: 18-24mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: 18-20mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Agrigentum

Provenance found

Found approx 200m north of Temple of Concord ('terreno Sclafani) in 1918

Map

Current location

Place

Agrigento, Italy

Repository

Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo , 1869

Autopsy

On display.

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

dedication

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 644995
• EDR: 136102
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: 329602

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 421
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0035
• E. Langlotz, ‘Die Ephebenstatue in Agrigent’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 58 (1943): 204–12, at abb.3
• J. De Waele, Acragas Graeca: die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien. 1, Historischer Teil, Archeologische studiën van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, d 3 (’s-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1971), at 32-33 no.3 pl.4
• P. Griffo, Il museo archeologico regionale di Agrigento (Rome, 1987), at 188 fig.163
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 183

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

1/19/2021