ISic004369: Inscription recording an architect called Proxenos
- ID
- ISic004369
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Brugnone 2016
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A block originally from the border of an ancient road, regular in front but angular on the reverse. Subsequently reused and cut along the lower edge and some damage to the right side.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 28 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters filling the surviving face, with a regular left margin, uneven right margin
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deep, square cut, regular letters showing features of both middle and later Hellenistic texts: alpha with broken bar; mu and sigma with parallel bars; pi with equal vertical strokes; omega closed as circle on the horizontal bar in line 3, above the bar in line 1; episoli and xsi with short middle bar; omicron smaller and above the line.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 24-48mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: Not measuredmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Monte Riparato
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- Caltavuturo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico "Don G. Guarneri"
- Autopsy
- Identified following earlier excavations (prior to 1992) of a section of ancient road on the north-west slopes of Pizzo S. Angelo on Monte Riparato. Now on display in the museum.
- Map
Date
2nd or 1st century BCE (letter forms) (200 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Proxenos is rare, known only in Sicily for the brother of the Syracusan Hermocrates (Xen. Hell. 1.3.13). the name Loiïskos appears to be unique. Mention of architects in Greek inscriptions is rare. In western Sicily, another example is known from a pavement inscription in front of the bouleuterion of Segesta (ISic 3505). Another pavement inscription of approximately this date is known from Solunto also (ISic003067).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 66.1026
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Iscrizione greca dall’abitato ellenistico sul Monte Riparato (Caltavuturo, Palermo)», in Ἡμέτερα γράμματα. Scritti di epigrafia greca offerti a Teresa Alfieri Tonini, a c. di S. Struffolino, Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico. 12 (Milan: Ledizioni, 2016), 209–17.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Antonietta Brugnone
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- Antonietta Brugnone
- Simona Stoyanova
- Robert Crellin
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025