ISic003081: Block containing section of civic accounts

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2009-10-06
ID
ISic003081
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
accounts
Object type
block
Status
draft
Links
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Edition

Giacomo Manganaro, «Le tavole finanziare di Tauromenion», in Comptes et inventaires dans la cité grecque: actes du colloque international d’épigraphique tenu à Neuchâtel du 23 au 26 septembre 1986 en l’honneur de J.Tréheux, a c. di D. Knoepfler (Neuchâtel, 1988), 155–90 Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Manganaro 1988

Physical description

Support

Description
Block of grey limestone, chipped around the edges, and with a very worn surface.
Object type
block
Material
limestone
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 22 cm, width: 68 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
It is unclear whether the text is distributed over two or three columns
Text condition
partly_illegible
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tauromenium
Provenance found
First published by Manganaro in 1988, studied by him in 1963, but found at an earlier date.

Current location

Place
Taormina, Italy
Repository
Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
Autopsy
Observed and photographed by Prag and Battistoni 2009-10-06
Map

Date

2nd — earlier 1st century BCE (200 BC - 51 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

accounts

commentary

The text belongs to the older (C2 or early C1 BCE) series of account inscriptions. The surviving state of the stone makes it extremely difficult to read, and although some more letters are visible, Manganaro chose not to present them and fresh autopsy is required.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
11/25/2025