ISic003147: Byzantine Christian invocation
- ID
- ISic003147
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- invocation
- Object type
- rock face
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from Bonacasa 1955
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Text incised on the face of a spur of rock on the side of a narrow valley, at c.1.75m above ground level.
- Object type
- rock face
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over three lines, with a centred justification, decreasing in height from line 1.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
cursive and majiscule alpha, uncial omega, lunate epsilon, use of later Greek ου ligature, use of X for ξ and S for Σ
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 60-80mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Panhormus
- Provenance found
- Observed and reported several times in the C20, first in 1917, republished by Bonacasa in 1955; on a rocky spur projecting into the Valle del Porco a short distance up the valley from its entrance (?a few minutes walk, a few hundred metres?), on the west side of M. Pellegrino,
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- in situ
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Bonacasa dates to first decades of 7th cent CE (AD 601 - AD 650)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Note the uneven choice of letter forms, and the switch to Latin characters on two occasions. Earlier editors assumed the text was neo-punic or proto-Sicilian.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645488
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329959
- PHI: 329960
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/2/2026