ISic003352: Antiquarian 'invented' inscription, dedication by Gorgon
- ID
- ISic003352
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- column
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Korhonen 2004
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A smooth cylindrical column, with a moulding around the top and a small cavity (2cm diam) in the upper surface.
- Object type
- column
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 46.5 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 21 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text in Greek letters over five lines, over the lower two thirds of the vertical side of the column
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Biscari (1784) states that it was found at Messina among the ruins of the earthquake in 1783
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 355
- Autopsy
- subsequent accounts in the early C19 attribute it to Capo Peloro (in Korhonen's view, a later refinement/attribution by Biscari)
- Map
Date
An 18th century invention, probably between 1769 (publication of Torremuzza's corpus which provides the inspiration) and 1784 (first report by Biscari) (AD 1769 – AD 1784)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Although originally believed by Korhonen 2004 to be an imperial Roman archaising text, Korhonen 2018 provides convincing arguments and explanations for believing this to be a later 18th century creation.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645595
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316302
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5592 adn
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0349bis
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 236
- Kalle Korhonen, «Quattro iscrizioni di interesse storico-religioso attribuite a Messina», Linguarum Varietas 7 (2018): 105–18, https://doi.org/10.1972/201811601008, at 112-116 no.2 fig.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Alex Antoniou
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021