ISic002936: I.Sicily inscription 002936

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic002936
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
honorific
Object type
base
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Orsi 1900, but corrected;
  • line.1: Cordiano notes the oddity of line 1 and speculates that we should read Γυμνασιαρχήσ[ας]
  • line.2: Orsi: ΕΥΚΟΥΛΙΔΑΣ

Physical description

Support

Description
described by Orsi as a 'dado' (i.e. a base without moulding, or with the moulding missing?), with a circular cavity in the upper surface
Object type
base
Material
volcanic lava stone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 36 cmwidth: 57 cmdepth: 36 cm

Inscription

Layout
Greek text on the front face, on three lines
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Hybla Gereatis
Provenance found
Said by Orsi in 1900 to have been found 'recently' in the garden of the (ex) convent of the Cappuccini, Paternò, although Soraci 1958 notes that a reading is attributed to a local antiquarian c.1808
Map

Current location

Lost.

Date

3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC – 100 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

The origin of the stone is uncertain, found together with ISic002946, according to Orsi, in the garden of the former convent of the Cappuchins, in the late C19 AD; however both are apparently reported in earlier antiquarian texts (see Soraci 1958, and Manganaro 1963), and Manganaro speculates that both perhaps come originally from nearby Civita, thought possibly to be the site of ancient Aetna-Inessa.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021