ISic002946: Dedication to Artemis
- ID
- ISic002946
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro 1965
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- block
- Material
- volcanic lava stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 78 cm, depth: 24 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of large Greek letters, approximately centred, on the wide face of the block
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 40-50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hybla Gereatis
- Provenance found
- (re)discovered in 19th century in the garden of the (ex) convent of the Cappuccini, Paternò, although already known to 18th century authors
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Paterno, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Gaetano Savasta ,
- Autopsy
- Seen by Orsi prior to 1900 publication
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Classified as a fake by Kaibel, without autopsy, both Orsi and Manganaro's autopsy confirms the text as genuine
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644855
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0012*
- Paolo Orsi, «Frammenti epigrafici sicelioti», Rivista di storia antica 5 (1900): 39–66, at 55 no. 27
- R. Soraci, «Appunti di epigrafia greca e romana relativa alla regione hyblense-inessea-adranita», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 7.13 (1958): 251–57, at 253
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Nuove ricerche di epigrafia siceliota», Siculorum Gymnasium 16 (1963): 51–64, at 57 n.42
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia dei culti in Sicilia», La Parola del Passato 20, fasc. 101 (1965): 163–78, at 176 fig.5
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
- 1/19/2021