ISic002763: Prayer for a vineyard
- ID
- ISic002763
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- prayer
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Bevilacqua and Giannobile 2000;
- 1: The cross at line 1 (and line 28) is formed of a vertical and horizontal, with each stroke ending in a loop, as in a rho, suggesting a fourfold christogram
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An oval limestone plaque, inscribed on both faces
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- 20 lines of text on side (a), filling the face, some lines spearated by horizontal lines; 5 lines of text occupying the top part of side (b), with a large cross below, the remainder of the face blank.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-20: 5-10mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Mutyca
- Provenance found
- First seen by Manganaro in November 1977, following discovery in a field in Contrada Monte Margi by a Modica farmer, Modica Salvatore. Subsequent location not certain.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
5th century CE (AD 401 – AD 500)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
As commentators note, the key parallel text is that from Noto, ISic002762
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645160
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 332960
- PHI: 336565
- Printed editions
- « 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 2006.00517a-b
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1995.0750
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 57.0883
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1097
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 55.1017
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 50.1017
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0781
- 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 491-496 figs. 7-10
- G. Bevilacqua e S. Giannobile, «“Magia” rurale siciliana: Iscrizioni di Noto e Modica», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000): 135–46, at 138-140
- Luca Zambito, «La lastra da Modica (c.da Monte Margi). Una proposta di lettura», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrafik 154 (2005): 269–70.
- 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.1
- Giacomo Manganaro Perrone, «Magia “benefica” nella Sicilia tardoantica», Epigraphica 69 (2007): 263–86, at 272-274 fig.2-3
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
- 4/10/2025