ISic003128: I.Sicily inscription 003128

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003128
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
unknown
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy;
  • line.2: Final character is not clearly an I (as read by Manganaro) but could also be N, although the most visible diagonal is superficial damage
  • line.3: The π has a second horizontal stroke at the midpoint; a short vertical stroke is visible at the right-hand edge of the stone

Physical description

Support

Description
Thin fragment of grey marble, intact along the bottom edge, broken on the other three sides. The reverse is finished smooth.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 7 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 1.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: incompletemm
Lines 2-3: 8-10mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Autopsy
2014-09-09 (Prag)
Map

Date

1st — 3rd century CE? (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Rediscovered in the Museum stores in 2014, having not been seen since initial publication by Manganaro. Inventory number not yet identified. The text looks rather later than the Hellenistic date proposed by Manganaro, who published it in the context of the Hellenistic oracular verse texts from Akrai, and seems more likely to be of the Roman imperial period.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021