ISic003369: I.Sicily inscription 003369

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2013-10-02

ID: ISic003369
Language: Hebrew
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text not yet transcribed

Physical description

Support

Description: Irregular shaped plaque of the local yellow limestone.
Object type: plaque
Material: limestone
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 16.0 cm, width: 28.5 cm, depth: 5.0 cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Acrae
Provenance found: Found during a series of excavations confirming the orthogonal street plan of ancient Akrai (saggio 5 of 1965), in a structure resting on top of the ancient roads; currently in magazzino C of the museo archeologico di Siracusa

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Autopsy: Prag 2013-10-02 in magazzino C (measurements only)
Map

Date

probably fourth or fifth century CE (AD 300 – AD 500)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

The text remains to be studied, with only a notice of its discovery published to date. The text contains magical symbols and possibly Hebrew characters. The text shows similarity to other magical and prophylactic inscriptions from south eastern Sicily of the late antique period.

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: 645598
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Gaetano Curcio, «Akrai: interessi nuovi per una citta antica», Sicilia Archeologica 16 (1971): 47–53, at 53 fig.10

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

10/1/2024