ISic001675: Opus signinum pavement inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Sjoeqvist and Tsakirgis
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Inscription set in white tesserae in an opus signinum floor of room 12 of the House of the Doric Capital, possibly a bathroom.
- Object type
- pavement
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Set out over one line in white tesserae in a 'doormat'
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- inlaid
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 120-125mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Morgantina
- Provenance found
- Room 12 of the House of the Doric capital
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Aidone, Sicilia
- Repository
- Area archeologica di Morgantina
- Autopsy
- in situ
- Map
Date
House constructed in 3rd century BCE, the floor may be post-211 BCE (275 BC - 151 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 33.0750
- E. Sjöqvist, ‘Excavations at Serra Orlando (Morgantina): Preliminary Report II’, American Journal of Archaeology 62, no. 2 (1958): 155–64, at 161 with pl.34 fig.32
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at vol.3, 323 with fig. 107
- Barbara Tsakirgis, ‘The Decorated Pavements of Morgantina II: The Opus Signinum’, American Journal of Archaeology 94, no. 3 (1990): 425–43, at 428 no.5 with fig.4, 441
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/30/2021