ISic003423: Building inscription on a re-used louterion basin

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ID
ISic003423
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
building
Object type
louterion
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Campagna 2013

Physical description

Support

Description
Multiple marble fragments (of which three join to make one larger fragment, and a fourth is approximately contiguous to the main fragment), which appear to form part of the circular basin of a 'louterion'. The remains of a square projection (12 x 12 cm, projecting a further 6 cm from the base) are partly preserved on the reverse of the main fragment, by which the basin was fixed onto the stand.
Object type
louterion
Material
marble (white)
Condition
No data
Dimensions
0: , 1:

Inscription

Layout
The text is inscribed on the concave inner surface of the basin, over seven lines. The visible vacats suggest that although the text is fragmentary, it only covered seven lines originally. The disposition of the text within the basin implies that the basin, in whole or in part, was re-used for the purposes of the inscription. The text curves slightly, due to the concave surface and form of the basin. The text preserves a clear left margin in lines 3-7. Both letter height and interlineation are uneven.
Text condition
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Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-7: 21-32mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation lines 1 to 7: 1.7-3.2mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Phintias
Provenance found
Monte Sant'Angelo di Licata, Excavation 2003-2005, sectors 1000 and 2000

Current location

Place
Licata, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico della Badia
Autopsy
On display
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Date

later 3rd century BCE or early 2nd century BCE (letter forms) (250 BC – 150 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

building

commentary

Fragments of a marble louterion basin found in secondary deposition (layers of soil and material slipping down the hillside), and bearing most of a 7-line building inscription recording work by two individuals, Nemenios and Theodoros, holding an uncertain office (gymnasiarch fits in line 1, but not certain), and carrying out a building work (rare word δομή perhaps of a wall (plausible restoration)). The nature and disposition of the text strongly suggests that this is the reuse of part of the basin to carry the inscription. Full discussion in Campagna 2013, with reasonable proposal on dating by letter forms, and linking the inscription to a major phase of rebuilding at Phintias in the early period of the Roman provincia.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
1/19/2021