ISic003681: I.Sicily inscription 003681
- ID
- ISic003681
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1996 (IGASM I[2])
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Remains of a pyramidal cippus, with truncated top; damaged top and bottom, with damage to the text, which however appears to be essentially complete.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 55 cm, width: 32-37 cm, depth: 20-26 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found during Orsi's initial excavation work at Megara in April 1889, recovered as a sporadic find from a (the?) wall, outside the city gate
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Megara Hyblaea, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Megara Hyblaia
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
early 5th century BCE (500 BC â 450 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5242
- Paolo Orsi, «Megara Hyblaea. Storia - topografia - necropoli e anathemata», Monumenti Antichi 1 (1890): 689â950, at 788 no.3
- âSupplementum Epigraphicum Graecumâ, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1092
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.27
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «KoinĂ© alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121â53, at 148-149 no.13 tav.32.4
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.27
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.8 tav.3.2
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 4, p. 19
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/3/2021