ISic001694: Fragment of a public inscription
- ID
- ISic001694
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public text
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Arena 2020
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a fine white limestone, broken on all sides, but preserving part of the original roughly cut rear surface; presumably part of a plaque or stele.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 10 cm, width: 10 cm, depth: 111 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two columns of text, with a space between of 1-2.5 cm. The right margin of the left column (A) is uneven, with a vacat equivalent to two line ends above the end of the first visibile line of text; the left margin of the right column is consistent.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Arena notes that the quadrangular module of the individual letters is somewhat irregular, with the combined module of omicron-nu (used as a control across multiple similar fragments) being 10mm from centre to centre. Letters with neat terminal serifs, elegantly cut.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 8mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- A chance find on the archaeological site of Halaesa, with date and findspot unrecorded.
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME30906
- Autopsy
- In the archaeological stores of the Soprintendenza di Messina
- Map
Date
Later 2nd century BCE or early C1 BCE (150 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/23/2022