ISic003365: I.Sicily inscription 003365
- ID
- ISic003365
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large rectangular block of stone, intact above, and possibly below, but broken on right; perhaps only lightly damaged on left. Previously broken into three pieces, but reconnected. The front face is made up of three horizontal bands, of approximately equal height. The uppermost (18.5-19.5 cm high) is rough finished and uneven, and in places overhangs the middle field, while at other points is shallower; the middle band (17 cm high) is smooth finished and mostly proud of both the upper and lower field, and carries the inscription; the lower band (16.5 cm high) is recessed in relation to the middle band, smooth at the left and right ends, but heavily eroded across much of the width of the stone. The overall thickness of the stone is somewhat variable.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 52-53 cm, width: 191 cm, depth: 13-14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text extends across the full surviving width of the middle band of the front face.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Slightly unevenly spaced deeply v-cut letters. Delta has a slight apex; Mu has vertical first and last, middle strokes only descend half-way; Nu has lower right angle slightly above the line; omicron is full size; rhos has small closed, curved eye; sigma has prallel top and bottom strokes, with relatively shallow mid-strokes; phi has large rhomboid body, traversed by the vertical which is extended (120 mm); omega is open, rounded, with long horizontal tails, and is slightly smaller than the full line-height (75-85 mm).
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 90-100mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Euboia
- Provenance found
- Found in February 1903 during building works on Via V. Cordova, in reuse in late antique tombs.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 22729
- Autopsy
- Depositi, Mag C
- Map
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (probably) (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is unclear what the significance of the initial surviving T should be; it is clearly separated from the name that follows by a vacat; the trace preceding appears to be damage to the stone rather than a letter (but if a letter, must be alpha or lambda). Perhaps part of a demotic abbreviation for a preceding name? (the abbreviation of a 'praenomen' seems unlikely). The piece is presumably part of a hellenistic monumental building inscription, re-used in late antiquity in the construction of a tomb.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644870
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 435-436 ph
- Paolo Orsi, «Contributi alla Sicilia cristiana (Licodia Eubea, Grasullo, Priolo, Siracusa)», Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Alterthumskunde und für Kirchengeschichte 18 (1904): 235–59, at 247-248
- B. Pace, Camarina: topografia, storia, archeologia (Catania, 1927), at 164 no.27
- Guido Libertini, Il regio museo archeologico di Siracusa, Guide dei musei italiani (Roma: La Libreria dello stato, 1929), at 122
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/10/2022