ISic003484: Fragment of a list of names

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2015-07-02
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2015-07-02
ID
ISic003484
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
list
Object type
unknown
Status
edited
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy;
  • 1: Manganaro: -με]νεος
  • 2: Orsi: -]ομενεος
  • 4: Orsi: -]ιος

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a block or plaque of the local soft limestone, possibly part of a stele. Seemingly intact on the right side, although with some minor damage; borken on the other three sides. Rough behind, but cut roughly flat.
Object type
unknown
Material
limestone
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 13.6 cm, width: 11.4 cm, depth: 8.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of four lines of Greek letters, with a vacat above; guidelines to top and bottom of each line, irregular right margin.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Standard later Hellenistic letters, of moderately square module, with simple terminal serifs. Epsilon with shorter middle bar; Mu with four full length, oblique strokes; omicron slightly smaller and above the line (12-13 mm); sigma with parallel top and bottom strokes.

Letter heights
Line 1-3: 15-17mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 3: 12-15mm
Interlineation line 3 to 4: 7-9mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae high certainty
Provenance found
Found during work to remove earth at the souther extremity of the Roman amphitheatre (wrongly attributed to the theatre by Manganaro), Siracusa, between 1916 and 1918.
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Current location

Place
Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 37628
Autopsy
Prag, 2015-07-02, in Magazzino B, MARPO
Map

Date

2nd century BCE by the lettering (200 BC - 101 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

list

commentary

Orsi's drawing shows the right side of omicron at the start of line 2, but the traces visible on the stone do not seem to be in any way compatible with this. Manganaro suggests that this was perhaps a list of youths from the gymnasium, but this can only be speculation. The proposal to read Καλλίβιος in line 4, genitive of Καλλίβις goes back to Orsi.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/17/2026