ISic001695: 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
ISic001695
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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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
Object 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
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Arena notes that the quadrangular module of the individual letters is regular, with the combined module of omicron-nu (used as a control across multiple similar fragments) being 9-10mm 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
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 - 51 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

Presence of [--ἐ]γγόνοις in line 4 strongly suggests an honorific decree (so Arena).

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/23/2022