ISic003109: I.Sicily inscription 003109
- ID
- ISic003109
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Korhonen 2004, checked against stone/photograph. Line 1 is above the relief, Line 2 is below it.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble relief plaque depicting Demeter and Kore, recomposed of two joining fragments, damaged in the lower left and on the right side. Inscription on the upper and lower borders of the relief.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 42 cm, width: 44 cm, depth: 7.5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- Text incised on the projecting upper and lower lintels/borders of the plaque
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Slightly irregular deep letters of classical form, moderately wide modul and terminal serifs. Alpha with straight bar; epsilon with shorter middle bar; kappa with shorter arms; mu with vertical first and last, shorter mid-strokes; omicron slightly smaller and above the line, rho with round closed eye; omega circular and full size.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 9-10mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the piazzetta di S. Niccolo di Triscina, during excavations for the palazzo of the Banca d'Italia, prior to 1937. Currently on display on the ground floor of the museum
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The general consensus is that this is an Attic relief plaque of the perhaps late fifth century BCE, seemingly re-used and re-dedicated with a Sicilian doric inscription of the mid-late Hellenistic period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645454
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316192
- PHI: 336511
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1946-47.0264
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1104
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 50.1009
- Guido Libertini, «Demetriaka», Archaiologike Ephemeris 100, fasc. 2 (1937): 715–26, at 721-726 fig.6
- Guido Libertini, «Relievo demetriaco da Catania», Bollettino Storico Catanese 4 (1939): 124–28, at ph = Libertini (1981) 117-120
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 186
- C. Löhr, Griechische Familienweihungen. Untersuchungen einer Repräsentationsform von ihren Anfängen biz zum Ende des 4. Jhs. v. Chr. (Rahden, 2000), at 59-60 no.54
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 1
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 14
- S. Privitera, «Due rilievi greci da Catania e il commerci di opere d’arte nella Sicilia tardo-repubblicana», Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 87, fasc. 1.2 (2009): 425–39.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/9/2026