ISic003401: I.Sicily inscription 003401

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003401
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
list
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Orsi 1889 with slight changes

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, intact on the left but broken on the other three sides.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 9 cmwidth: 10 cmdepth: 3.4 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-5: 10mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
Recovered during the demolition of the 16th century fortifications at the entrance to Ortygia in July 1889
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Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 7261
Autopsy
Not yet identified (Manganaro could not find it prior to 1999)
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Date

2nd or 1st century BCE by the lettering which is later Hellenistic (Unknown – Unknown)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

list

commentary

The text is recorded by Orsi in his fourth notebook in 1889, inserted into his NSA publication of the same year. It has not, so far, been relocated in the museum. Manganaro suggests this is a list of Ephebes, but although it is clearly a list of names, more than that cannot said.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/11/2021