ISic003348: Tyndaris honours Antimachos as Euergetes
- ID
- ISic003348
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Gentili:[Ἀρισ]τόδαμος...
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large quadrangular block of moederately compact grey limestone. Essentially intact on all sides (although the rear is not visible). The right side is damaged at least towards the front. If the rear right side is the original, then the base was wider at the front on the right side. The left front edge is lost across the corner over the full height of the stone. The top appears damaged along the right edge and towards the rare. The preserved upper surface is lightly pecked implying another element rested on top. Raised up on a modern plinth and mortared at the rear to the wall of the antiquarium.
- Object type
- statue base
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 56 cm, width: 52 cm, depth: 64 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters approximately centred on the upper half of the front face.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Simply cut, regular letters of fairly wide module, without serifs. Alpha with broken bar; epsilon with shorter middle stroke; Mu with full length strokes, vertical first and last; omicron almost full size; sigma with horizontal outer strokes, inner strokes almost full width; phi with extended vertical (up to 65mm), small circular eye; omega closed, with tear-drop shape.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 36-42mm
- 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.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari , 28740
- Autopsy
- 2022-07-12 Prag, in the Antiquarium
- Map
Date
Late Hellenistic (200 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645592
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70901004
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1953.0277
- G.V. Gentili, «1821. Scavi nella città», Fasti Archaeologici 5 (1950) (1952): 164–65.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 203 no.2 tav.72.4
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 58 no.3 fig.21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/23/2026