ISic002994: Dedication by a bronze-worker

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ID
ISic002994
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication
Object type
unknown
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Dubois, IGDS II;
  • 1: S.Mazzarino (ap. Soraci) conjectured a name was missing at the start; no lacuna is indicated in the original apograph
  • 2: apograph: ΜΕΝΑΜΑ
  • 3: apograph: ΝΕΟΗΚΕ

Physical description

Support

Description
The text is only known through an antiquarian apograph of the late 19th century.
Object type
unknown
Material
stone
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Inessa-Aetna
Provenance found
Observed 'nel casino dei Signori Ardizzone', and assumed to come from the area of the settlement and necropolis at cda Civita, often identified with ancient Aetna/Inessa
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Current location

Lost.

Date

fourth to first century BCE (400 BC - 1 BC)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

dedication

commentary

The text is likely to be of late classical or hellenistic date, given the nature of the text and its Doric form, but little more can be said given the lack of further information. The formula εὐχὴν ἀνέθηκεν is widespread, but not in combination with μνῆμα. The lack of both name of the dedicant and any reference to the divinity to whom the dedication/vow is made suggest the text may be incomplete.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
11/22/2025