ISic003500: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic003500
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro 1999 with slight changes based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of the local limestone, intact on the left margin, possibly intact above, but broekn to the right and below. The rear is cut roughtly straight. could be part of a plaque or stele.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 29 cm, width: 10 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Initial letters of six lines, preserving a consistent left margin, c.2 letter spaces in from the edge, but not quite perpendicular to the margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Simple letters without serifs. Broken bar alpha; Mu with vertical outer strokes, short inner strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 30-34mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 6: 10-15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Hellenistic (?) (300 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
No data
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645368
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 336193
- Printed editions
- âSupplementum Epigraphicum Graecumâ, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1331.6
- Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichitĂ e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999), at 68 no.62 fig.144
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/21/2021