ISic003391: Opus signinum inscription of Gnaius Modius
- ID
- ISic003391
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- ownership
- Object type
- pavement
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- text set in an opus signunum pavement at the entrance to a room
- Object type
- pavement
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Mosaic at the entrance to room i of house 13,22 in SE quarter of Megara Hyblaea
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Megara Hyblaea, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica di Megara Hyblaea
- Autopsy
- in situ in House 13.22
- Map
Date
1st century BCE (100 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- context
Text type
commentary
Archaeologically, the 'baths of Cnaius Modius' (so called because of this inscription at the entrance) should be dated to the first century BC (so Tréziny 2018: 274), not the third-century BC as discussed in Torelli 2007
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 494029
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70901044
- PHI: 330096
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2007.0671
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 59.1107
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1102
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 152 no.18 tav.34.3
- M. Torelli, «Un italico nel regno di Ierone II: Cn. Modius e il suo balneum di Megara Iblea», Sicilia Antiqua 4 (2007): 99–104.
- Henry Tréziny, Mégara Hyblaea. 7, La ville classique, hellénistique et romaine, CEFR 1/7 (Rome: École française de Rome, 2018), at 273-274
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 4/21/2021