ISic001696: Fragment of a public inscription
- ID
- ISic001696
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- 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, seemingly including the rear also (so not preserving original thickness); presumably part of a plaque or stele.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 7 cm, width: 7 cm, depth: 7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Letters preserved from four lines of text, damaged on all sides.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 8mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Casual find on 13 March 2007 in the area SE of the Church of S. Maria, in the area of Carettoni's trench XLIX, immediately to the west of the 'decumanus'.
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME30904
- 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
The surviving letters in form and size leave open the possibility that this fragment comes originally from one of the tabulae of the cadastral inscription, ISic001174.
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