ISic001623: Dedication to Apollo
- ID
- ISic001623
- Language
- Oscan
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Crawford 2011 from autopsy in 2009;
- 1: Orsi: [---]ΑΣ; Crawford: 'There is no trace of any letter before the first Σ'
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large limestone block, intact above, below and to the right, broken on the left.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 55 cm, width: 92 cm, depth: 52 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines with clear vacats above and below, uniform right margin
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 60-90mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Described by Orsi as found in proximity to the railway bridge which carries the railway over via S. Cecilia 'in proximity to the 'ex molino romano', at a depth of 2 metres.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A554
- Autopsy
- Observed on display in the museum, no formal autopsy.
- Map
Date
mid-3rd century BCE (288 BC – 225 BC)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Crawford notes that the text uses the Greek onomastic system of personal name + patronym in the genitive.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 171043
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Messana. La necropoli romana di S. Placido e di altre scoperte avvenute nel 1910-1915», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 121–218, at 195 fig.46
- E. Vetter, Handbuch der italischen Dialekte (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1953), at no.197a
- O. Parlangèli, «Le iscrizioni osche (mamertine) di Messina», Bollettino Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani 4 (1956): 28–38, at 37-38
- M. A. Mastelloni, «Messana e i Mamertini», in Lo Stretto di Messina nell’Antichità, a c. di F. Ghedini et al. (Rome: Quasar, 2005), 275–92, at 277 fig. 2
- M.H. Crawford, Imagines Italicae. A Corpus of Italic Inscriptions, 3 vols, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 111 (London: institute of Classical Studies, 2011), at Messana 7
- Vincenzo Orioles, «Per una rivisitazione di Vetter 191. Contributo all’interpretazione della formula onomastica», in Eqo : Duenosio. Studi offerti a Luciano Agostiniani, a c. di Alberto Calderini e Riccardo Massarelli, Ariodante 1 (Perugia: Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2022), 751–66, http://www.ariodante.unipg.it/ariodante001.pdf, at 755-757 no.3.1
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
- 1/20/2025