ISic003090: I.Sicily inscription 003090
- ID
- ISic003090
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manni Piraino, compared against poor quality photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large block walled into the 'bema', facing the nave, inside the Duomo. The block has been recut along the top and the right, but appears to preserve the original margins on the left and below. The surface is somewhat eroded, and the stone porous.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 42 cm, width: 58 cm, depth: 39 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- three lines of somewhat irregular letters are preserved, with a slightly irregular left margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, deteriorated
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 20-60mm
- Line 2: 45-90mm
- Line 3: 30-80mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cephaloedium
- Provenance found
- Built into an internal wall of the duomo, at the base of the south corner of the principal apse, facing the nave, below the level of the pavement
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Cefalù, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
later 4th or 3rd century BCE (350 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
On the grounds of palaeography, Manni Piraino suggests dating the text to the late fourth or early third century BCE (the date of 3rd - 4th century AD in SEG must be an error of transcription of the Italian 'a.C.'); a date anywhere in the third century seems in principle possible, however. The stone was re-used in the mediaeval period, so no original context is preserved. It is presumably part of a dedication or honorific.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284916
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900518
- PHI: 331406
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0846
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «II materiale antico reimpiegato e rilavorato in età normanna - Iscrizioni greche», in Mostra di documenti e testimonianze figurative della Basilica Ruggeriana di Cefalù. Catalogo della mostra Cefalù, luglio - settembre 1982 (Palermo, 1982), 63–64, at 64 ph
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Iscrizioni greche del duomo», in La Basilica Cattedrale di Cefalù. Materiali per la conoscenza storica e il restauro. 3. La ricerca archeologica. Preesistenze e materiali reimpiegati, a c. di N. Bonacasa et al. (Palermo: Epos, 1985), 145–49, at 145-147 R22 fig. 197-198
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 3/6/2022