ISic004370: A fragmentary gymnasial dedication to Hermes and Herakles

Photo from https://archeosicilia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/centuripe-scoperta-la-dedica-di-un.html
ID
ISic004370
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication
Object type
unknown
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • transcription by Jonathan Prag from photograph ;
  • line.2: γυμνασιαρχοῦντος or γυμνασιαρχήσας or γυμνασιαρχησαντος
  • line.5: παρεσκευαζεν?

Physical description

Support

Description
A fragmentary slab of local limestone, broken on all sides
Object type
unknown
Material
limestone
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of six lines of Greek letters, evenly spaced, all incomplete
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Neatly cut, regular and evenly spaced letters without serifs. Broken-bar alpha; sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; omicron almost full size

Types
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Centuripae
Provenance found
Found in 2017 in re-use in the wall of a modern house in the old centre of Centuripe

Current location

Place
Centuripe, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe ,
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

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

Text type

dedication

commentary

Discovered summer 2017 and reported on online blog sites, with images. See https://archeosicilia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/centuripe-scoperta-la-dedica-di-un.html (Isabella di Bartolo, 18 September 2017). The traces in line 1 suggest a dedication to Hermes and Herakles; line 2 appears to be a reference to the office of gymnasiarch; lines 3 and 4 presumably contain the name(s) of the gymnasiarch(s). Line 5 is perhaps a reference to the motivation for the dedication.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021