ISic002987: Inscription recording civic accounts
- ID
- ISic002987
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- accounts
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro 1964
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large rectangular block of the local limestone, with some chipping to the edges. The front face is covered with four columns of text, with a rough, raised border between the second and third columns.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 37 cm, width: 107 cm, depth: 23-37 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is laid out over four columns, with vacats below columns 1 and 2.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Columns 1-4: 4-5mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in re-use in during the excavation of the Roman baths close to the upper agora of ancient Tauromenium
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- None, but block observed and photographed in 2009.
- Map
Date
2nd — or first half 1st century BCE (200 BC - 46 BC)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
The text belongs to the earlier sequence of account blocks, using the local month names. Columns 1 and 2 contain the closing months of the year, while columns 3 and 4 have the opening five months of the following year, as indicated by the fragmentary reference to the eponym of the year at the start of column 3.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645339
- 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 42-52 tav.17-18
- 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
- Last revision
- 11/20/2025