ISic002004: Christian monogram/symbol

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; Bonacasa 1955: fig.4
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; Bonacasa 1955: fig.4
ID
ISic002004
Language
Latin
Text type
invocation
Object type
rock face
Status
draft
Links
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Edition

N. Bonacasa, «Documenti cristiani sul Monte Pelligrino», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 31 (1955): 269–73 Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from Bonacasa 1955

Physical description

Support

Description
Text incised on a large mass of rock towards the left side of the valley, on its south face.
Object type
rock face
Material
stone
Object condition
complete
Dimensions
height: 21.5 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Cross mounted over a triangle with letters to either side, total height 21.5 cm
Text condition
complete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: 60-100mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Panhormus
Provenance found
First recorded by Bonacasa in 1955; on a rocky mass, on the north side of the valley, 25m away from ISic003147, part way up the Valle del Porco a short distance up the valley from its entrance (?a few minutes walk, a few hundred metres?), on the west side of M. Pellegrino,
Map

Current location

Place
Palermo, Sicilia
Repository
in situ
Autopsy
None

Date

Perhaps to be dated to the first decades of 7th cent CE, as ISic003147 (AD 601 - AD 650)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

invocation

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
11/28/2025