ISic002761: Fragment of a magical text
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- ID
- ISic002761
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- prayer
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Pugliese Carratelli
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque or slab of the local soft limestone, irregular, broken above, if not on all sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 16.5 cm, width: 30 cm, depth: 4-4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- At least five lines of text, in combination with magical characters.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: not recordedmm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hybla Heraea
- Provenance found
- Found in 1950 to the NW of Ragusa, in contrada Maurino, an upland area crossed by the Ragusa -Chiaramonte Gulfi road.
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text appears to include a number of magical names, as well as magical characters. Line 5 may be 'Abraxia'.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285164
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64600458
- PHI: 329962
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 18.0415
- 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 183-184 fig.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/2/2025