ISic003477: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic003477
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- list
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text as in Prag and Tigano 2017, from autopsy;
- line.3: Carettoni: ΑΠΟΛ[ΛΙΝΙ]
- line.4: Carettoni: ΑΙΣΚΥ[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a limestone stele. The left margin is preserved, but the stone is broken on all other sides.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: 8.5 cm, depth: 14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The beginning of five lines of Greek letters more or less aligned with the left margin of the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 15-18mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Recovered from the area of Temple A in 1956 (either from the main trench along the west side of the platform, or other soundings taken in the vicinity, all made by Carettoni in 1956)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e sito archeologico di Halaesa , ME 30587
- Autopsy
- On display in the lapidarium on the site
- Map
Date
2nd — 1st century BCE (200 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Carettoni (1961: 318) suggested that this was a dedication to Apollo, restoring ΑΠΟΛΛΙΝΙ (‘to Apollo’) in line 3; Manganaro (1999: 68, followed by Facella 2006: 320) speculates instead that the text was a list of names, perhaps of ephebes, or alternatively of dedicants or contributors, but too little survives to be certain of either interpretation. It is possible that the text continued both above and/or below what survives. Carettoni mistakenly read ΑΙΣΚΥ in line 4. The restorations are those suggested by Manganaro, but must be considered purely exempli gratia.
The text cannot be dated precisely, but the letter forms suggest a date in the second or first century BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645098
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 336074
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1282 Zotero FAIR
- NSA Carettoni (1961) at 318 no.12a Zotero FAIR
- 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 68 no.63 fig.145 Zotero FAIR
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 320 Zotero FAIR
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.1 Zotero FAIR
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Davide Massimo
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021