ISic001691: I.Sicily inscription 001691
- ID
- ISic001691
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ampolo and Erdas 2019
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large limestone base, somewhat worn, and damaged upper right corner and lower left. Mouldings top and bottom of the main base, with a further moulding above the top part of the base. the face is very worn, and the texts hard to discern.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 120 cm, width: 78 cm, depth: 59 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two texts are incised on the front of the base, one on the main face between the principal mouldings, and a second on the smaller upper section, between the two upper mouldings.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Letter heights
- Line 1-7: 40-44mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Said to have been found in the 'zona Badia', signifying the area immediately below the agora; the base currently stands in front of the entrance to the offices and stores of the archaeological park, at Case Barbaro.
Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Italy
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta , IG 2683
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st century BCE - 1st century CE (100 BC – AD 100)- Evidence
- material-context
Text type
commentary
The editors note that the text in the upper field could be in either Latin or Greek, and that the sequence IMI could theoretically form part of a Roman name such as Aimilios. Two other comparable bases (anepigraphic) are known from Segesta, and represent a typical type of the Roman period. The likely provenance from the vicinity of the agora, and the form, suggest an honorific.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
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- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/9/2022