ISic003010: I.Sicily inscription 003010
- ID
- ISic003010
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text as in Manganaro 1977 ;
- 3: Cavallari: -]ΣΙΜΟΣ
- 4: Cavallari: -]ΤΩΝ; Kaibel: [Ἀρί]στων
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A block of compact limestone (colour not reported), described as 'pietra di Taormina'. Intact above, to right and below (although with some chipping to the edges, and with the upper right corner of the face lost; broken approximately in half (?) on the left side. The measurements reported by Orsi (W 29, H 32, D 26) differ slightly from those reported by Cavallari and repeated by Manganaro.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 23 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters; the text appears to be centred on the stone, with slight vacat below.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in November 1886, during the demolition of 16th cent. fortifications at the entrance to Ortygia.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 6288
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th century or 3rd century BCE based on the letters. (400 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Wrongly attributed to Tauromenium in SEG (presumably due to a misreading of the reference to the type of stone). The text was published twice in NSA, firstly by Fiorelli/Cavallari, on the basis of a squeeze taken by Cavallari, and subsequently by Orsi, based upon autopsy (with a transcription by hand recorded in the first of his Taccuini). In Orsi's transcription, the remains of upsilon at the start of line 4 is clearly indicated, but omitted by Fiorelli/Cavallari. Kaibel's reading of στων for the final line appears to be based upon the unsatisfactory published version of Orsi's transcription in NSA 1889. Manganaro's correction back to Υ in 1977 is correct, unaware of Orsi's original reading. The trace is visible in the photograph in Manganaro 1977. The restoration of [Ἀγαθῶ]ι goes back to Kaibel; of [--κλ]εος to Manganaro. Manganaro notes that a name such as Κρύτων or Βρύτων might stand at the end of line 4; but a relative pronoun in the genitive plural is surely at least as plausible.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645358
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101975
- PHI: 140295
- PHI: 331256
- 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 466
- 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 370
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0005a
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0988
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p.44
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/3/2022