ISic004395: Fragment of a Sikel(?) text
- ID
- ISic004395
- Language
- Sikel
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Loading...
Apparatus criticus
- Text from Manganaro 1965
Physical description
Support
- Description
- fragmentary block, broken into three joining pieces and damaged on at least three sides (above, to right and below)
- Object type
- block
- Material
- volcanic (lava stone)
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 21 cm, width: 56 cm, depth: 11 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- parts of two lines of letters running left to right obliquely across the face
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 60-65mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Not recorded, but assumed to be local.
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico ,
- Autopsy
- currently in store at the antiquarium / teatro; observed in 2005 and 2009 without full autopsy
- Map
Date
5th century BCE, assuming the identification as anhellenic is correct (500 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia dei culti in Sicilia», La Parola del Passato 20, fasc. 101 (1965): 163–78, at 163-166 fig.1
- Luciano Agostiniani e A. L. Prosdocimi, «Lingue e dialetti della Sicilia antica», Kokalos 22–23, fasc. 1 (1977 1976): 215–60, at 254
- Federica Cordano, «Iscrizioni monumentali dei Siculi», Aristonothos 4 (2012): 165–84, at 169
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021