ISic001901: Stone stamp bearing a Latin name
- ID
- ISic001901
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- stamp
- Object type
- stamp
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Manganaro 1999: [(?)τ]ο͂ · ναο͂ · Ἀθ[αναίας(?)]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A wedge-shaped die carved from yellowish fine-grained limestone, decorated on the short and long sides, a palm branch on the short side, a Latin inscription on the long side. Partially damaged upper right corner.
- Object type
- stamp
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 9.96 cm, width: 2.28-7.33 cm, depth: 4.31 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is retrograde filling the long face of the stamp
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 21-28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Morgantina
- Provenance found
- Found during exxcavation of the House of the Arched Cistern in 1963, ldoged against interior face of western wall of room 26 (off the northern peristyle court). House occupied between early 3rd cent. BCE and mid-1st cent. CE.
Current location
- Place
- Aidone, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico di Aidone , 63-1103
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Archaeological context ranges between c.275 BCE and 50 CE, lettering Late Republican (100 BC – AD 50)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Originally and incorrectly reported by Manganaro as a brick fragment and read as a text in Greek and attributed to the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Siracusa "Paolo Orsi". The case of the names is unknown, nominative or genitive most likely. The final element is a cognomen, such as Aquila, Aquilinus or Aquinus (see Walthall and Korhonen for full discussion).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 336176
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1317.3
- Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999), at 47 no.37 fig.112
- D. Alex Walthall and Kalle Korhonen, ‘A Limestone Stmpaing Device with a Latin Personal Name from Morgantiina’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigrafik 232 (2024): 309–11, at 309-311
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 4/23/2025