ISic001870: Inscribed fragment of a marble basin
- ID
- ISic001870
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- basin
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1899
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described as fragment of the rim of a plate or basin in Parian marble.
- Object type
- basin
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: 7 cm, depth: 8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Single line of letters on the outward facing side of the rim.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kamarina
- Provenance found
- A chance find during the excavations of 1896 on the acropolis in the area 'between the temple and the sea' (so Orsi 1899).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 16484
- Autopsy
- None; the stone has not so far been located in the Siracusa museum (now in Camarina?)
- Map
Date
Archaic, on the basis of the lettering. (600 BC â 500 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The stone does not seem to have been seen or restudied since Orsi's 1899 publication (Pace simply reprints from Orsi).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, « Sicile », Bulletin de Correspondance HellĂ©nique 20 (1896): 399â400, at 399
- Paolo Orsi, «Camarina (Campagna archeologica del 1896)», Monumenti di AntichitĂ 9 (1899): 201â78, at 275 fig. 71
- B. Pace, Camarina: topografia, storia, archeologia (Catania, 1927), at 160 no.4 and fig.64
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
- 4/24/2024