ISic003080: I.Sicily inscription 003080
- ID
- ISic003080
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- Quarry mark
- Object type
- block
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- A with right-angled straight strokes extending left and right from the apex of the letter.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Monogram on the side of a large block of lava stone ('grosso pezzo di lava con marca di scalpellino', Orsi).
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- volcanic
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 200mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Naxos
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Orsi 1893-04-21 in Giardini Naxos, in the garden of Prof. Cacciola in Naxos.
Current location
- Place
- Giardini Naxos, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Assumed to be ancient (600 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The piece is reported by Orsi in Taccuino no.17, p.61, describing observations of 21April 1893; Pelagatti reprints an image of the notebook page and transcribes it. The piece appears to be a corner block of a larger monument, cut away on the interior.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645432
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 331820
- 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 (1984-1985), 276 with 274 fig.20
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0954
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/27/2025