ISic001697: 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
ISic001697
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
unknown
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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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: 4.6 cm, depth: 7 cm

Inscription

Layout
Letters preserved from three lines of text, damaged on all sides, with a vacat of 2.3 cm between lines 2 and 3.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-3: 5-6mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation: 6mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Halaesa
Provenance found
Casual surface find, 2001-2002, along the track which runs from the church of S. maria towards the agora, between insulae VI and VII to the west of the 'cardo massimo'.

Current location

Place
Messina, Italy
Repository
Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME30907
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

unknown

commentary

The smaller letter size makes it effectively certain that this text is distinct from any of the other fragments so far recovered from the site.

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

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