ISic003476: I.Sicily inscription 003476
- ID
- ISic003476
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro, controlled against photograph;
- 1: Manganaro: Εὐπραξ[ία] Ἡρακλεί
- 2: Manganaro: δαι Ἡρακλείδα
- 3: Manganaro ἐποίησε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Limestone block, seemingly damanged on all sides, especially across the top and in the centre of the front face by plough damage.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 62 cm, depth: 31 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of large Greek letters with regular left margin. The text is not perpendicular to the face of the block as it survives, either implying poor layout or else the block has been recut.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large wide and square letters, regularly set out, without notable serifs. Alpha has broken bar; epsilon has shorter middle bar; kappa has short arms; omicron is slightly smaller than other letters and above the line; pi has equal length vertical strokes and slight overlap of the horizontal; rho has a small closed loop
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 40-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but prior to 1999 and in the area of Centuripe.
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Italy
- Repository
- private collection (P. Cacia)
- Autopsy
- Recorded by Manganaro in house of Dr Prospero Cacai, prior to 1999.
Date
later third or second century BCE (250 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The irregularity of the layout may suggest later recutting of the block. Manganaro's reading appears optimistic when compared against the photograph.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645097
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64500537
- PHI: 336070
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1276
- 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 41 no. 15 fig. 92
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/3/2022