ISic004487: A stone monetary weight

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ID: ISic004487
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: weight
Object type: pebble

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Apparatus criticus

Text of Mignosa

Physical description

Support

Description: A rounded river-stone of compact limestone, of elliptical shape, worked so that it is flattened on two sides. Weight 17.51 gr.
Object type: pebble
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 2.8 cm, width: 1.8 cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: limestone
Type > subtype: stone.calcarenite > unspecified

Inscription

Layout: Two lines, perhaps inscribed at different times
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: 6mm; Line 2: 2mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Acrae
Provenance found: From Palazzolo but without more specific context, acquired by Orsi in 1893.

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 13316
Autopsy: Mignose
Map

Date

Early fifth century BCE (500 BC - 475 BC)

Evidence: le

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Paolo Orsi, «Frammenti epigrafici sicelioti», Rivista di storia antica 5 (1900): 39–66, at 43 no.5
Willers (1905) at 346-347 fig.4
G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Silloge dell’ epigrafi acrensi», in Akrai, a c. di L. Bernabó Brea (Catania, 1956), 151–81, at no.17
Guarducci (1969) at 475-476 fig.117
Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 108
Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. V. Iscrizioni di Taranto, Locri Epizefiri, Velia e Siracusa, 1st ed., vol. 5 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 1998), at no.79
Manenti and Mignosa (2024) at 117 no.3 fig.7-8

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

6/8/2026