ISic002753: Fragment of a bilingual dedication to Priapus
- ID
- ISic002753
- Language
- Ancient Greek and Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Minimal text, checked against the photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a marble plaque, broken to left and right and along the upper edge; the upper right surface is obscured by 'macchie rossastre' (i.e. red spots/discoloration).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular, well-cut Greek letters with clearly defined serifs at the end of strokes: Omicron, omega and theta all have rhomboid form; in some instances this is actually a pentagonal form, flat across the top; Omega is open at the bottom; Sigma is four bar and regular; Epsilon has equal horizontal strokes; Alpha has broken bar; the diagonal of the Nu starts and finishes well below/above the ends of the vertical strokes. The Latin letters show the beginnings of the move towards cursive forms: M has extended upper strokes and the midpoint reaches to the bottom of the line; A also has extended upper stroke and lacks a cross-bar; O is rounded, in contrast to the Greek text, as is Q with extended tail; P is open; R is closed; E has short upward slanting strokes; L has a long foot, forming almost a C.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-8: 20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation : mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Acium
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations of a substantial rural structure (a granary?) in October 1921, at Casalotto, near Aci San Antonio (property of the Principe di Reburdone)
- Map
Current location
Lost.
Date
Late 2nd — 4th century CE (AD 180 - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 493-498 fig.2
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1923.0075
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738.21
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0948
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0059
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 02.0533
- R. Sabbadini, «Priapo bifronte», Bollettino di filologia classica 30, fasc. 1 (1923): 19–20.
- F. Ribezzo, «Sulla dedica bilingue del Priapo bifronte di Aci-Catania», Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica di filologia - lingua - antichità 9, fasc. 1–2 (1925): 65–66.
- F. C. Wick, «Due nuovi saturnii?», Athenaeum 4 (1926): 167–71.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia dei culti nella Sicilia greca», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 16 (1977): 148–64, at 162-163
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 29 n.128
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni, epigrafi ed epigrammi in Greco della Sicilia orientale di epoca romana», Mélanges de l’École Francaise de Rome: Antiquité 106, fasc. 1 (1994): 79–118, at 110-111 no.21 dr.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/24/2023