ISic001704: Fragmentary Greek 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: ISic001704
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: draft
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Orsi 1903 fig. 4

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of marble (plaque?), broken on all sides.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 5.5 cm, width: 2 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: Traces of two lines of Greek letters.
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Described by Orsi as 'tre lettere di buona epoca', seemingly of under 20mm in height.
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.
Map

Current location

Not located to date

Date

Orsi describes as 'tre lettere di buona epoca', implying Hellenistic? (400 BC - 201 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

The piece is reported by Orsi but not referenced in the relevant section of the museum inventory (cf. ISic001703 = inv. 14930), and has not been republished since.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Paolo Orsi, «L’Olympieion di Siracusa (scavi del 1893 e 1902)», Monumenti Antichi, Monumenti antichi. Serie monografica, 13 (1903): 369–92, at col. 387 fig.4

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/15/2022