ISic003714: I.Sicily inscription 003714

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003714
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication
Object type
unknown
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy;
  • 2: Manganaro inserts an additional illegible line between lines 1 and 2, but there is no basis for this.

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of orange-pink marble, broken top and left; right side preserves a circular rim, and the underside has a recessed circular shape. Conceivably this is a fragment of a circular cinerary urn lid, of which examples attested at Siracusa and Catania.
Object type
unknown
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 14 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 4 cm

Material

Description
marble

Inscription

Layout
Traces of three lines of Greek letters
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Worn, thinly incised lunate letters. Alpha with crossbar descending to left; lunate epsilon; lunate omega; kappa with short bars.

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Line 2: 15-25mm
Line 3: 17-20mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 14mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 13mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Agrigentum
Provenance found
From excavations of ekklesiasterion, S.Nicola, 1962.
Map

Current location

Place
Agrigento, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo , 8330
Autopsy
Prag 2018-07-18
Map

Date

Roman imperial period (AD 1 - AD 400)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
11/8/2023