ISic003347: Fragment of a public inscription

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ID
ISic003347
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
building
Object type
architrave
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

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Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a limestone epistyle / architrave
Object type
architrave
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 40 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: cm

Material

Description
limestone

Inscription

Layout
single line of monumental letters below the moulding of the architrave
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Neat, wide thinly incised monumental letters, omicron full size.

Letter heights
Line 1: 75mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tyndaris
Provenance found
Found in excavations by Gentili in 1949 in re-use in the so-called honorific arch, or late antique monumental entrance, immediately outside the city walls on the south side of the settlement, below the modern hamlet (and possibly still in situ in secondary deposition).
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Current location

Place
Tindari, Sicilia
Repository
Antiquarium di Tindari
Autopsy
none
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Date

Hellenistic (200 BC - 46 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

building

commentary

Gentili speculatively read this as a reference to an individual called Aristodamos or Kleodamos, but as Robert already observed, this must, surely, as in ISic003348, be a reference to the damos (and was so restored by Manganaro). As with ISic003348 it was found in re-use in a late antique element of the fortification walls.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
5/27/2021