ISic002982: Two fragments of a late antique inscription
- ID
- ISic002982
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- a2: It could be argued that the final character is actually a badly damaged and compressed Ν, but the traces are much more easily read as Κ
- b3: Pugliese Carratelli: .ΝΚΑΡ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two non-joining fragments of an off-white limestone. Fragment (a) is cut-down into a rectangular block; fragment (b) broken on all sides. Both only roughly finished on the reverse. Fragment (a) is H 26.5 cm x W 15 cm x D 14.5 cm; fragment (b) is H 17cm x W 30.5 cm x D 17 cm. Both fragment have a simple raised moulding bordering the text down the right margin.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragments, non-contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Line 1 of fragment (a) is slightly larger than the other lines.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line a1: 80mm
- Line a2: 41-71mm
- Line a3: greater than 23mm
- Line b1: greater than 23mm
- Line b2: 49-70mm
- Line b3: 40-43mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line a1 to a2: 20mm
- Interlineation line a2 to a3: 8mm
- Interlineation line b1 to b2: 8mm
- Interlineation line b2 to b3: 7-19mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Testa dell'Acqua (Mezzo Gregorio)
- Provenance found
- Mezzo Gregorio, 12.5km south of Palazzolo,
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palazzolo Acreide, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Gabriele Judica ,
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2023-05-09
- Map
Date
Later Roman /early Christian? (AD 300 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Orsi proposed that the two fragments belonged to the same inscription, and there are no good grounds to doubt this. The carving technique is unusual, as is the switch in forms of alpha within the space of a couple of letters.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645335
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 175491
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Epigrafe cristiana di Palazzolo Acreide (Acrae). Contributo alla storia dell’altipiano acrense nell’antichità », Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 8 (1931): 287–99, at 296 = Orsi (1942) 211 fig.107
- G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Silloge dell’ epigrafi acrensi», in Akrai, a c. di L. Bernabó Brea (Catania, 1956), 151–81, at no.58
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
- 9/17/2024