ISic001697: Fragment of a public inscription
- ID
- ISic001697
- 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: 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
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
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 9/23/2022