ISic002950: I.Sicily inscription 002950
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- ID
- ISic002950
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific; dedication
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- No copy of the text is preserved
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No details about the inscription's physical form are recorded
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Reported by Ansaldi as among material found in the area of the ancient bath building by the Aqua Amara spring in contrada Difesa, Centuripe
- Map
Current location
Lost.
Date
The use of Greek suggests a later Hellenistic date; the name 'Cornelius' suggests a very late Republican or more likely early Imperial date. A period in the second half of the first century BCE is perhaps most likely. (200 BC - AD 200)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
A Greek inscription recording a gymnasiarch with the name Cornelius. It was seemingly lost even when Ansaldi reported it in 1851. It was apparentliy written in Greek, and the text indicated that it was erected in front of the gymnasium, and tha tthe gymnasiarch responsible was a Cornelius. Ansaldi laments its loss. Other texts record the existence of a gymnasium (ISic002945 and ISic004370), while a Latin text found elsewhere in the town (ISic000004) records the building of a sphaeristerium (part of a baths or gymnasium) by two Cornelii in the Imperial period. It is tempting to link the name Cornelius, at least to the same family, but there is no formal basis for doing so. The date of this text is clearly problematic, since the use of Greek suggests a pre-imperial date, while the name Cornelius encourages a date in the Imperial period (by comparison with other material). A date at the very end of the Republican period / beginning of the Augustan period is perhaps most likely.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644859
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Discussion
- Guido Libertini, Centuripe (Catania, 1926), at 75-76
- Guido Libertini, «Iscrizioni Centuripine», Siculorum Gymnasium 2 (1949): 91–97, at 93-94
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at cf. 004
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 22
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 152 fig.130
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/30/2022