ISic001694: Fragment of a public inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001694
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: public text
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

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
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

Lettering

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 – 50 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

public text

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Emiliano Arena, Nuove epigrafi greche da Halaesa Archonidea. Dati inediti sulle Tabulae Halaesinae e su una città della Sicilia tardo-ellenistica, BAR IS 3017 (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020), at 75-81 no. 5

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

9/23/2022