ISic001695: Fragment of a public inscription
- ID
- ISic001695
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- 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, including the rear (so not preserving original thickness), now of roughly trapezoidal shape; presumably part of a plaque or stele.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 10.5 cm, width: 11.9 cm, depth: 2.8-3.7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of the right margin of 5 lines of text (the final line poorly preserved); vacat above (11 mm maximum, against an interlinear measurement of 6 mm) suggests this may be the first line of the text.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 8mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Found by Francesco Modico in spring 2019, 2 m east of the city walls, in the direction of the Masseria di Salvo.
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME31331
- 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
commentary
Presence of [--ἐ]γγόνοις in line 4 strongly suggests an honorific decree (so Arena).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
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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
- 9/23/2022