ISic001678: Plaster graffito

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Isler, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description

Two joining fragmenta of plaster fallen from the surface of a wall within the building

Object type

wall

Material

plaster

Condition

fragments, contiguous

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

letters scratched into plaster; a single line preserved, unclear if text complete to left, but clearly incomplete to right; space above and below

Text condition

complete

Technique

scratched

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Moderately regular and evenly spaced letters of generally equal height. Straight-bar alpha; slightly open gamma; lunate epsilon; kappa has full-length arms; rho has a triangular eye.

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Ε type3
• Ε type3.1
• Ι type1
• Κ type1
• Κ type1.1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.5

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Ietas

Provenance found

Found in 2008 among material fallen to the floor in the north ambulacrum of the peristyle of peristyle house 2

Map

Current location

Place

San Cipirello, Italy

Repository

depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation ,

Autopsy

None

Map

Date

Evidence

archaeological-context

Text type

business record

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1101
• Hans Peter Isler, ‘Grabungen auf dem Monte Iato im Herbst 2007 und im Jahr 2008’, Antike Kunst 52 (2009): 95–109, at 103-104 with taf. 18.5
• Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: scavi 2007-2008», in Sicilia occidentale: studi, rassegna, ricerche, a c. di Carmine Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 91–103, at 96 with fig. 182

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

5/20/2021