ISic002754: I.Sicily inscription 002754
- ID
- ISic002754
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- oracle
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro 1992, but checked against the stone by autopsy (Prag);
- line.19: The top of either a Φ or a Ψ is visible in approximately the fifth position of the line
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Five joining fragments of the upper part of a thick limestone slab, intact on the top, left and right, broken across the lower part, with damage to the lower right margin higher than on the left, beginning from line 6 of the text. The rear of the stone is finished also. Fragment A (upper left): max W 20.5 cm, max H. 19, D 6.9-8.1; fragment B (upper right): max W 17 cm, max H 18.5, D 7.3-8.5; fragment C (lower left): max W 14.5, max H 11.5, D 6.8-7.0; fragment D (lower middle): max W 3.5cm, max H 3, D (damaged) 3.5; fragment E (lower right) missing.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 27.5 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The left margin of the text is carefully justified, but the right margin is very uneven, with several extensive vacats at line end.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-19: 5-7mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Acrae
- Provenance found
- Found by a local farmer in the area of Colle Orbo c.1968
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 66527
- Autopsy
- Depositi, Mag C, cass.113/04
- Map
Date
2nd century BCE (200 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Of the five fragments, three are large (a, b, c) and two very small (d and e); the smallest (e), from the bottom edge of the join between the two principal fragments, is currently unlocated and not with the other fragments. The text should be considered alongside ISic003367; it was recovered together with that piece (although there is no evidence of how close the asssociation was). The letter forms are effectively identical on the two pieces, probably cut by the same hand.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.0824(a)
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0823
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 35.0998.1
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0821
- Giacomo Manganaro, «L’oracolo di Maie per una carestia in territorio siracusano», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser. 3, 11, fasc. 3–4 (1981): 1069–82.
- C. Gallavotti, «Epica religiosa in una stele siciliana», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 50 (1983): 1–6.
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Epigrafia greca», Kokalos 30–31 (1985 1984): 231–55, at 239-240
- W. Peek, „Zu den epischen hexametern und orakelversen au Syrakus“, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 60 (1985): 78–79.
- H.W. Parke, ‘Further Comments on “epica Religiosa” (ZPE 50, 1983, 1-6), a Sibylline Oracle’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 63 (1986): 47–51.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni “rupestri” di Sicilia», in Rupes loquentes: atti del convegno internazionale di studio sulle iscrizioni rupestri di età romana in Italia. Roma - Bomarzo 13-15.X.1989, a c. di L. Gasperini (Rome: Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1992), 447–501, at 473-484 ph
- 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 111 no.22 fig.32
- L. Porciani, «La Sibilla di Acre: Sicilia e Vicino Oriente nel II secolo a.C. (SEG XXXI, 1981, 821 e 822)», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, a c. di T. Alfieri Tonini e S. Struffolino (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 127–36.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021