ISic004403: I.Sicily inscription 004403

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

Lettering

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

Evidence

No data

Text type

unknown

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

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• B. Pace, «La basilica di Salemi», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 697–736, at 733 no.7

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