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
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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
natural rock
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, Italy
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
11/22/2025