ISic004403: I.Sicily inscription 004403
- ID
- ISic004403
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Pace 1916
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A somewhat damaged block with triglyphs on four sides, with a single line of text running below the triglyphs on one side
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- tufa limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 46 cm, width: 65 cm, depth: 23 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- single incomplete line of Greek letters immediately below the triglyphs
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
it appears from the photograph that the text employs standard four-bar sigma
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halicyae
- Provenance found
- Found by Pace in re-use in the early Christian basilica outside Salemi
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Salemi, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
unknown (Unknown - Unknown)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Pace lists this and one other text-bearing fragment of stone (ISic004402) at the end of his report on the excavation of the basilica at Salemi. From Pace's account, this appears to have been found in re-use inas construction material for the basilica, but as he notes, it clearly derives from a different and earlier structure. It is however wholly unclear from Pace's account (and the photograph, at col.733-734 fig.14) whether the inscription is original to the block and its original architectural purpose, or a later addition, and the photograph is insufficiently clear for any certainty. Current location of the block is unknown to me, and I have not so far found any reference to it in more recent literature.
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