ISic004485: Dedication by an Akragantine at Delphi
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- ID
- ISic004485
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- base
- Text type
- dedication
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 2002 (IGASMG II² 93). ;
- line.1: Daux 1937 tentatively interpreted the surviving traces as the end of a personal name in -ιος or -ος, followed perhaps by the patronymic Μνασία.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of an elongated dedicatory base in Saint-Elijah limestone, broken on the left, right and back. The upper bed has setting holes for at least two bronze statues and at least two stelae.
- Object type
- base
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 83 cm, depth: 62 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines are inscribed on the front face. Line 1 is cut immediately below the upper edge.
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, partly_illegible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Daux attributed the lettering to an Akragantine stonecutter on the basis of the form of gamma.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1–2: 25–35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: 7–8mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum
- Provenance found
- Found at , Greece; the precise findspot and date of discovery are not recorded.. Daux examined the stone in 1922 and saw it in the same depot until 1926, but could not locate it in 1933 or 1936. It was subsequently rediscovered and was kept in the epigraphic depot of the West Stoa by 1959. Jeffery 1990 records it as Delphi Museum inv. 5098.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Delphi, Sicilia
- Repository
- Archaeological Museum of Delphi
- 5098
- Autopsy
- None
Date
500–475 BCE (500 BCE - 475 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The ethnic Ἀκραγαντῖνος is the only securely interpretable element. Daux regarded the text as a dedication rather than an artist's signature and attributed the form of gamma to an Akragantine stonecutter. Bousquet interpreted the holes on the upper bed as settings for at least two bronze statues and at least two stelae, suggesting an elongated base carrying a multi-figure dedication.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 931327
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329475
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (1962), 18.0210
- Daux (1937) at 60–61, pl. VII
- J. Bousquet, « Inscriptions de Delphes », Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 88 (1964): 380‑94, at 150, n. 2
- J. De Waele, Acragas Graeca: die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien. 1, Historischer Teil, Archeologische studiën van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, d 3 (’s-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1971), at 40 no. 9
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 182b
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 278 no. 64
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 93
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/30/2026