ISic001489: Dedication to Hermes
- ID
- ISic001489
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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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
- Lettering
-
- 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
4th or earlier 3rd century BCE (letter forms) (400 BC – 250 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021