ISic004387: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic004387
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo146, checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble slab, intact on the lower edge, but broken on all other sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 12.5 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Part of two lines of Greek letters, between deep guidelines, with vacat below
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large regular lunate letters, deeply carved with minimal serifs; Manni Piraino sees broken bar alpha.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Panhormus
- Provenance found
- Found during the excavations of Roman period buildings in 1904/1915 undertaken in Piazza Vittoria, Palermo
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8844
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd century CE (Manni Piraino, letterforms) (AD 201 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Listed by Manni Piraino in IGPalermo as being of unknown origin, the piece is in fact published by Gabrici in MAL 1921 as part of the materials recovered in the Piazza Vittoria excavations.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021