ISic002993: Dedication of church entrance
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- ID
- ISic002993
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1903 with suggestions of Ferrua 1989;
- 1: Ferrua suggests that omicron at the end of line 1 was originally the ligatured form ȣ
- 2: Ferrua suggests that the lower of the two stacked omicrons in line 2 might be lunate sigma for the end of εἴσοδος (in which case actually line 3)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A block of course lava stone, walled into the sacristry of a church
- Object type
- block
- Material
- volcanic
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 82 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over two lines, seemingly
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Described by Orsi as archaic Greek letters, but seems more likely a Christian text, crudely cut on coarse stone.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hybla Gereatis
- Provenance found
- Seen by Orsi walled into the sacristy of the chiesetta dell'Annunziata all'Ospedale, behind a bench or seat. No subsequent publication references actual autopsy of the stone, Orsi provides a drawing of the text.
Current location
- Place
- Paterno, Italy
- Repository
- Chiesa dell'Annunziata
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Byzantine; 5th — 6th century CE (?) (AD 401 - AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Orsi declined to resolve the text, which he thought Archaic. Subsequent editions by Pace, Soraci, and Ferrua are all derivative of Orsi's drawing. Pace first proposed the Christian resolution, which would seem to be from above the entrance to a church.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645343
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 441 dr
- B. Pace, Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica. Volume quarto. Barbari e Bizantini (Rome, Naples, Città di Castello: Società anonima editrice Dante Alighieri, 1949), at 196 dr
- R. Soraci, «Appunti di epigrafia greca e romana relativa alla regione hyblense-inessea-adranita», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 7.13 (1958): 251–57, at 253
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.470
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/3/2025