ISic002760: Prayer for the prosperity of a vineyard
- ID
- ISic002760
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- prayer
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Korhonen IMusCatania after Burzachechi
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Five fragments, reconnected, of a plaque of limestone, with elements missing from the lower left, and on the right margin, and the surface now heavily worn on the surviving left portion.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 43.5 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 5.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- 6 lines of text on the upper portion of the plaque, with a series of magical symbols on two lines below the text.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 15-18mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Dianae Fons
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Amico 1757; currently in storage in the Museo Civico, but in a poorer condition than when first found.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 319
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later 4th - earlier 6th century CE (AD 351 – AD 550)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- 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
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1954.0019
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 18.0414
- Guido Libertini, Il Museo Biscari (Milan: Casa editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tuminelli, 1930), at 318 no.11
- C. Mercurelli, «Scavi e scoperte nelle catacombe siciliane (1941)», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 21 (1945): 5–104, at 92
- B. Pace, Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica. Volume quarto. Barbari e Bizantini (Rome, Naples, Città di Castello: Società anonima editrice Dante Alighieri, 1949), at 38-39
- G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Epigrafi magiche cristiane della Sicilia orientale», Rendiconti delle sedute dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ser.VIII vol.8, fasc. 3–4 (1953): 181–89, at 181
- 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 405-407 no.2 ph
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Nuovi documenti magici della Sicilia Orientale», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche Ser.VIII vol.18, fasc. 1–2 (1963): 57–74.
- D.R. Jordan, ‘Two Christian Prayers from Southeastern Sicily’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984): 297–302.
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 235
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
- 7/4/2025