ISic002981: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic002981
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 2: Pugliese Carratelli: [---]ικος Ν̣[---]; lapis: a vertical is visible immediately before the Ρ at the start of the line; the middle character is formed by a clear horizontal at the top, but the damage below makes it impossible to resolve, but the only options would seem to be Γ or Σ, but the surviving surface seems incompatible with the latter; the final letter could also theoretically be Μ.
- 3: Pugliese Carratelli: [---]ΝΑΚ̣[---]; lapis: the final character visible is a vertical, with the beginning of a stroke at the midpoint on the right, more readily compatible with Η, than Κ.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of white marble stone, most likely fragment of a plaque, broken on all sides. Uneven on the rear.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 6.8 cm, width: 12 cm, depth: 4 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- Traces of three lines of letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neatly carved, regularly and generously spaced Greek letters with small serifs/terminations to the strokes. Alpha with straight bar; omicron very slightly smaller than the other letters.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 15-19mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Acrae
- Provenance found
- Acquired from Akrai by the Siracusa museum 26.03.1893, but no further details of provenance; now in cassetta 6, magazzino B.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 12704
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2014-09-10
- Map
Date
Later Hellenistic (300 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
It is impossible to make anything of this fragment, but neat Hellenistic letters on white marble place it in the category of public inscriptions, particularly those wiht lists of names..
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645334
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 175489
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/9/2026