ISic002985: I.Sicily inscription 002985
- ID
- ISic002985
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- accounts
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text is provisional, based upon autopsy by Filippo Battistoni and Alessia Dimartino in 2009, with further revision by them against photographs.;
- 8: τετρα engraved in a hole in the stone
- 9: Manganaro: θησαυρῷ
- 11: Manganaro: μετά
- 19: Manganaro suggests τρί(vac)τας was corrected to δευτέρας using paint.
- 23: Manganaro: ΑΛΙΙ; lapis: Λ[--]
- 24: Manganaro: ΑΙΙητω (=Ἀρρήτῳ?)
- 37: lapis: - - ΟΙ - - Ο - - ΧΟ
- 38: Manganaro: ΜΕΣ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 32 cm, width: 69 cm, depth: 59 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is laid out over two columns, with the majority of the second column blank and uninscribed.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-41: 4mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- 2009.10.06 Battistoni, Dimartino, Prag
- Map
Date
46—36 BCE (46 BC – 36 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This example of the account inscriptions from Taormina is to be closely associated with ISic002986, which is similar in terms of calendar and institutions, and diverges from the other account inscriptions in this regard. The text is conventionally dated to the period between 44 and 36 BCE due to the use of Roman calendar, 'duo andres', etc., which are assumed to imply the adoption of municipal status, although the presence of the month Quinctilios in ISic002986 makes this somewhat problematic, strictly implying a date before 44 BCE. The solutions are either to restrict these texts to the narrow window between 46 and 44 BCE, or to allow an earlier date (and so to reject the idea that adoption of Roman institutions necessarily requires the formal status of municipium), or to allow a date down to c.36 BCE (on the assumption that support during the period for Sextus Pompeius entailed rejection of the adoption of the new month name of Iulius). Strictly, unlike ISic002986, this text is not confined to the narrow window between 46 and 44, since we cannot know whether it employed Quinctilius or Iulius.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645337
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1966.0512
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni latine e greche dal nuovo edificio termale di Taormina», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 3 (1964): 38–68, at 53-55
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Le tavole finanziare di Tauromenion», in Comptes et inventaires dans la cité grecque: actes du colloque international d’épigraphique tenu à Neuchâtel du 23 au 26 septembre 1986 en l’honneur de J.Tréheux, a c. di D. Knoepfler (Neuchâtel, 1988), 155–90.
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
- 8/11/2023