ISic003438: I.Sicily inscription 003438

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
ISic003438
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
list of names with numbers
Object type
block
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Merlini 1841;
  • 4: Merlini reports a small circle upper right of the N, and traces of what might be a capital T after the second b
  • 7: Merlini reports a small circle upper right of the first N
  • 8: Merlini 1841: ΚΡΑΤΓΣΤΟΣ; Messina 1992: Κράτυλος

Physical description

Support

Description
No description is preserved other than 'a stone found in Mineo'.
Object type
block
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
'portion of a stone found in Mineo', first reported by Merlini in 1841.

Current location

Lost.

Date

Hellenistic (?) (300 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

list of names with numbers

commentary

Orsi's transcription and editing of the original report of Merlini is not entirely faithful, and Messina's reading of lines 8-9 as another name seems preferable. The symbols left uninterpreted by Orsi must be numerals and find approximate parallels (even if not certain interpretation) among other later Hellenistic Sicilian texts (see e.g. the gallery texts from the Euryalos fortifications).

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/22/2022