ISic003435: I.Sicily inscription 003435
- ID
- ISic003435
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro 1999, based upon antiquarian record itself reported by Orsi
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three blocks of stone (type not specified), well finished, with moulding along the upper edge and inscription below; assumed by Manganaro and Orsi to join as part of a funerary monument. The first is described in report of 1841 as 5.5 palms wide, the second 4 palms, the third 4.5 palms. Messina proposes that the blocks are part of the facade of a nymphaeum uncovered in 1961.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Menae
- Provenance found
- Described as a chance find in 1813, in a 'vignaletto' below the road that leads into Mineo from the west through the 'Udienza' gate. Messina proposes that it should be associated with the moumental nymphaeum uncovered int he area in 196.
Current location
Lost
Date
Hellenistic (?) (300 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Orsi instead proposed restoring in a different order and with different inflections, as Βομβυλίνος, Χριῶνα καὶ Νυμφόδωρος
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644914
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900815
- PHI: 336160
- Printed editions
- Corrado Tamburino Merlini, «Le antiche Mene a lungo governate da Duczio imperatore della nazione dei Sicoli in Sicilia», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 73, fasc. 221 (1841): 170–211, at 189
- Paolo Orsi, «Frammenti epigrafici sicelioti», Rivista di storia antica 5 (1900): 39–66, at 56 no.30-32
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1308.B
- A. Messina, «Mineo», in Bibliografia topografica della colonizzazione greca in Italia e nelle Isole Tirreniche, a c. di G. Nenci e G. Vallet, vol. 10 (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1992), 145–51, at 146-147
- Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999), at 42 no.19
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Maria Barbieri
- system
- Last revision
- 9/30/2022