ISic003376: I.Sicily inscription 003376
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1998
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Upper left corner of a large slab, broken on right and below, with a recessed moulding on the left edge. Orsi speculates could have been part of a cippus covering a tomb.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 40 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 28 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- stone.calcarenite > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of a single line of large Greek letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hybla Heraea
- Provenance found
- From tomb 15 of the archaic necropolis in contrada Cuciniello/Cucinello, excavated by Orsi in 1898, vicinity of Ragusa station
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 19047
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Second half of 6th century BCE (550 BC - 501 BC)- Evidence
- context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645604
- 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 (1899), 410 frag.a fig.8
- U. Schmoll, Die vorgriechischen Sprachen siziliens (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1958), at no.29
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.22
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.22
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. V. Iscrizioni di Taranto, Locri Epizefiri, Velia e Siracusa, 1st ed., vol. 5 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 1998), at no.97
- Agostiniani and Scerra (2017) at 337
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/4/2025