ISic001697: Fragment of a public inscription
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- ID
- ISic001697
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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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
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 7 cm, width: 4.6 cm, depth: 7 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Smaller letters than in the other similar fragments from Halaesa, with faint traces of serifs (but the surface is very worn). The interaxial measurement between omicron and nu is 9-10 mm. The letter forms are comparable however to other fragmentary texts of the later C2 / early C1 BCE from Halaesa.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 5-6mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa high certainty
- 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'. Now on display in the EcoMuseo, Castel di Tusa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME30907
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Later 2nd century BCE or early C1 BCE (150 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
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
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/18/2026