ISic001703: Fragmentary Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001703
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1903 fig. 3
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick marble plaque, belonging to the lower left corner (intact to left and below, broken above and to the right; the face of the lower left corner is lost also)
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 6.5 cm, width: 10.5 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines of Greek letters, with a single letter vacat at line beginning and a distinct vacat below the second line.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in Orsi's excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Siracusa, between 6 April and 6 May 1893 (although the inventory states March 1893).
- Map
Current location
Not located to date
Date
Fourth or third century BCE on the basis of lettering. (400 BC – 201 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Restoration of the names of the divinities Artemis and Dionysos is plausible (even if the case ending can only be hypothetical); but of course other names, of e.g. human dedicants are also possible. The piece is reported by Orsi and listed in the museum inventory, but has not been republished since, nor has it yet been located in the museum. The use of marble (so it is described by Orsi) would be notable for an inscriptional plaque c.300 BCE.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
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- Printed editions
- Discussion
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
- 11/15/2022