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 Rizzone;
  • 1: S.Mazzarino (ap. Soraci) conjectured a name was missing at the start; no lacuna is indicated in the original apograph
  • 2: apograph: ΜΕΝΑΜΑ; Dubois: μνᾶμα
  • 3: apograph: ΝΕΟΗΚΕ; Dubois: [ἀ]νέθηκεν

Physical description

Support

Description
The text is only known through two antiquarian apographs of the late 19th / early 20th 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

Savasta's apograph shows regular Hellenistic letters, with broken-bar alpha.

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
Map

Current location

Lost.

Date

Later Hellenistic (200 BC - 1 BC)
Evidence
textual-context, lettering

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. Rizzone, on the basis of a second apograph, by the local scholar Savasta, is more inclined to read the text as essentially complete, as presented here, in contrast to other attempts to amend it (Dubois) or consider it lacunose (Soraci, Mazzarino).

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Citation and editorial status

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