ISic003403: Fragment of a monumental Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic003403
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Orsi, Taccuino 2.74
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large block of compact limestone ('calcare di Canicattini')
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 36 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 90 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of monumental letters across the broad face of the block
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 210mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Ortygia, extracted from the wall bordering the last canal/ditch linking the great and small harbours, on the corner looking towards the great harbour, in late 1888, at which point noted and recorded by Orsi, and transfered to the museum 4 December 1888.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 12254
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
3rd or 2nd century BCE (250 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644948
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 140309
- 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 371
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0015b
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 74
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
- 1/19/2021