ISic001834: Inscribed theatre seat
- ID
- ISic001834
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- seat
- Text type
- seat inscription
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- seat
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 108.5 cm, depth: 38 cm
Material
- Description
- , likely (identification based on pXRF)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.polishable.grey > calcare_grigio_SiciliaOR
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Note the lack of serifs and the homogeneity in size of the round letters compared to the others (omicron).
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 128-230mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Theatre
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- under the scaenae frons
- Map
Date
2nd century BCE (palaeographic) (200 BCE - 101 BCE)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492868
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101630
- PHI: 140750
- Printed editions
- G. De Spuches, «Illustrazione d’alcune epigrafi e d’altri oggetti archeologici», Bullettino della Commissione di Antichità e belle arti in Sicilia 1 (1864): 12–17, at 13
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 437.3
- Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5233
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1132
- Alessia Dimartino, «Ierone II, Filistide e il teatro greco di Taormina. Note in margine a IG XIV, 437», in Immagine e immagini della Sicilia e di altre isole del Mediterraneo antico, a c. di C. Ampolo, vol. 2, 2 voll. (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2009), 721–26, at 722 no. d
- Alessia Dimartino, «Iscrizioni del teatro di Taormina», Axon 1, fasc. 1 (2017): 301–7, https://doi.org/10.14277/2532-6848/Axon-1-1-17-29, at testo d
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025