ISic003034: Text engraved on wall of a rock-cut tomb

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ID: ISic003034
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: rock-cut tomb
Status: draft
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Edition

Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni “rupestri” di Sicilia», in Rupes loquentes: atti del convegno internazionale di studio sulle iscrizioni rupestri di età romana in Italia. Roma - Bomarzo 13-15.X.1989, a c. di L. Gasperini (Rome: Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1992), 447–501 Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Manganaro

Physical description

Support

Description: The text is engraved on the right hand wall of a rock-cut tomb.
Object type: rock-cut tomb
Material: stone
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: Possibly over two lines
Text condition: partly_illegible
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Large letters of Hellenistic type: broken bar alpha, round theta and omicron of equal size, theta with central dot.
Letter heights: Line 1: 190mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Hybla Heraea
Provenance found: The tomb is in contrada Nunziata Vecchia, at the entrance to a small valley, close to the SP 10.
Map

Current location

Place: Ragusa, Sicilia
Repository: in situ
Autopsy: None

Date

Hellenistic (300 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Whether the text should be understood to belong to the original tomb is unclear. The name Thoas is not attested in Sicily. A second text is incised on one of the adjoining walls (ISic003035).

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/2/2026