ISic001560: Fragment of a monumental Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001560
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo;
- line.1: The initial Π is not certain (much narrower than the π in line 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick plaque of limestone, seemingly intact on right and below, broken above and to the left
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 40 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 16 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of large regular letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular broad square large letters without serifs: Epsilon has storkes of equal length; theta is circular with full width cross-bar; omicron is full size; pi has equal length verticals, with an overextended cross bar; sigma is regular four-bar.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 100-110mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ietas
- Provenance found
- Found in the autumn of 1969 in the area of the temples
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8787
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Manni Piraino dates to the 2nd century CE simply on the basis of the theta, which seems implausible (and the site was not significantly active at this date). Given the monumentality of the lettering and the quality of the stone, dating so precisely by letter forms seems implausible, and a late Hellenistic date seems much more likely. (200 BC - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493907
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 41300036
- PHI: 175635
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/4/2024