ISic002757: Prayer for a vineyard
- ID
- ISic002757
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- prayer
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Jordan 1984;
- 8-9: a series of c.9 magical symbols
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A tablet of local stone, of which the left- and right-hand edges and possibly the bottom edge as well are preserved.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- tuff
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 cm, width: 25.5 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Dianae Fons
- Provenance found
- Found by a farmer in the locality of Crucidda, near Comiso
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
5th century CE (AD 401 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284751
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64600456
- PHI: 331213
- PHI: 332930
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1961.0865
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0761a
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0944
- M. Burzachechi, «Nuove iscrizioni greche cristiane da Comiso», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ser.8 vol.14 (1959): 403–10, at ph
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tre tavole di bronzo con decreti di proxenia del Museo di Napoli e il problema dei proagori in Sicilia», Kokalos 9 (1963): 205–20, at 63
- D.R. Jordan, ‘Two Christian Prayers from Southeastern Sicily’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984): 297–302, at 297 no.1
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Nuovo manipolo di documenti magici della Sicilia tardo antica», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ser IX vol.5 (1994): 485–517, at 497-499 ph
- Bevilacqua (1999) at 72 no.1 fig.66
- Luca Zambito, «Un’epigrafe da Modica. Superstizione e religiosità nelle campagne in età tardoantica», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 9, fasc. 11 (2006): 366–76, at fig.3
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
- 6/17/2025