ISic003009: Dedication to Damater(?)
- ID
- ISic003009
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro 1977, checked against stone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Front left corner of a large, well finished block of compact grey limestone. Broken to the rear, left and right sides in a diagonal break from mid-front to rear left coner. Intact top, bottom, front left. The lower face is finished smooth, like the front; The upper and left side faces are finished, but left rough picked.
- Object type
- statue base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 41.8 cm, width: 49 cm, depth: 46.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of large Greek letters; all are incomplete, but the unjustified left margin suggests a text that was originally centred on the stone
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 60mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in foundation works for post office, between via Eumelo, via Archia, and via Carabelli
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica della Neapolis, Orecchio di Dionisio e Teatro Greco
- Autopsy
- Lying on the ground near the exit gate to the area of the amphitheatre
- Map
Date
Letters of the 3rd century BCE; the apparent double kingship reference suggests the Hieronian period (300 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, titulature
Text type
commentary
The text is speculatively restored in several different ways by previous editors: the text of Manganaro 1977 is provided here as an example; Gentili 1961 instead suggested a dedication to Demeter and Kore by Gelon, son of Hieron. Manganaro is correct that there is theoretically space for a shorter fourth line, and the dedication to Zeus Hellanios in honour of Gelon (ISic003331 provides a plausible parallel.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1103.2.2
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0979
- G.V. Gentili, «Nuovi elementi di epigrafia siracusana», Archivio Storico Siracusano 7 (1961): 5–25, at 8-10 no.3
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tauromenitana: un calendario romano di Tauromenion», Archeologia Classica 15 (1963): 13–31, at 24
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 186 no.2 tav.64
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Una epistola di Gerone II ai Siracusani (IG XIV.7)», Athenaeum 43 (1965): 312–20, at 315 n.11
- Alessia Dimartino, «Per una revisione dei documenti epigrafici siracusani pertinenti al regno di Ierone II», in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-III sec. a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, a c. di C. Michelini, vol. 2, 2 voll., Atti Elimi V (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), 703–17, at no.2.2
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
- 11/3/2022