ISic003014: I.Sicily inscription 003014
- ID
- ISic003014
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy, combining suggestions of Manganaro and Robert (BE 1966)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A (somewhat coarse, crystalline) white marble plaque, intact along the upper edge, right and below, but broken across the left side. Roughly finished edges and reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 16.3 cm, width: 19.8 cm, depth: 2.0-2.6 (left to right) cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, homogeneous, white, calcitic marble, likely Parian-2. Optical microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric with triple points. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy, stable isotopes analysis)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Parian-2
- Provenance
- Chorodaki
- Map
Inscription
- Layout
- seven lines of Greek, seemingly roughly centered on the stone, but with lines overunning
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate letters (epsilon, sigma and uncial omega), somewhat crudely engraved amnd uneven / irregular in size.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 10-20mm
- Line 7: 10-11mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris
- Provenance found
- Found at Tindari, but no further details recorded
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2022-07-14
- Map
Date
1st or 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Robert proposed reading the prriestly title in line 3, and challenged various elements of Manganaro's original reading. The resolution of the second half remains far from certain. Manganaro originally dated the inscription to the first or second century CE, but in his final discussion (2011), without comment he redated it to the second century BCE. This seems deeply unlikely on the grounds both of palaeography and the use of a white marble plaque of this sort. At the same time, a cult inscription in Greek in the period of the Roman colonia is somewhat exceptional.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645362
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70901005
- PHI: 331257
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1966.0525
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0989
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia dei culti in Sicilia», La Parola del Passato 20, fasc. 101 (1965): 163–78, at 177
- Umberto Spigo, Tindari. L’area archeologica e l’antiquarium (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2005), at 77
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Divinità femminili nell’area peloritana e siracusana e l’emergenza di italici nella sicilia tardo ellenistica», Sicilia Antiqua 6 (2009): 111–16, at 111 dr
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 57 no.2 fig.20
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/2/2026