ISic001663: I.Sicily inscription 001663
- ID
- ISic001663
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick plaque or stele of limestone. Intact on the left and part of the front and rear face, but broken top, bottom, and on the right. A substantial raised moulding is partially preserved along the left side, which could originally have been a relief carving of an engaged column, but has a flat / smooth front survace. Part of the upper right of the preserved face is also lost.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 13.5 (maximum preserved; 16 at rear) cm, width: 14.5 (maximum preserved; 14.7 at rear) cm, depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of 16 densely packed lines of Greek, with the left margin intact; the faint suggestion of a raised border in the lower left corner implies that the final line preserved may be the final line of the text.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deep cut, small regular square letters, without serifs. Alpha has broken bar; omicron is full size; omega is closed, smaller circle atop a horizontal bar; theta slightly ovoid; sigma has horizontal top and bottom strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-16: 5-6mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 1-2mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum
- Provenance found
- Area of the bouleuterion, S. Nicola
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo
- Autopsy
- Prag 2018-07-18
- Map
Date
2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 37.0757
- S. Calderone, «Frammento di decreto onorifico agrigentino», Quaderni dell’Istituto di Archeologia della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Universita di Messina 1 (1985): 13–18, at 13-18 tav.10
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tre iscrizioni di Agrigento. Il culto dei Caesares nipoti di Augusto e la diffusione della gens Annia», Sicilia Antiqua 10 (2013): 247–52, at 247-248 fig.1
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Rivangando iscrizioni siceliote e monete imperiali con contromarche e incisioni», Epigraphica 76 (2014): 63–80, at 63-66
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/7/2023