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
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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 cmwidth: 11.9 cmdepth: 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

honorific

commentary

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

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

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