ISic020603: ISic020603

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Manganaro 1961

Physical description

Support

Description

Fragment of tile.

Object type

tile

Material

clay, fired

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The inscription runs on the upper edge of the tile.

Text condition

incomplete

Lettering

Types list:

• Α type1
• Α type1.4
• Δ type1
• Δ type1.2
• Ε type2.3
• Ζ type2
• Ι type1
• Κ type1
• Κ type1.2
• Μ type2
• Μ type2.2
• Μ type2.2
• Ο type5
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.5
• Σ type1
• Σ type1.1
• Σ type1.2
• Σ type1.2
• Τ type2
• Τ type2.1
• Τ type2.3
• Υ type1

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Mendolito

Provenance found

contrada Mendolito.

Map

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 31890

Autopsy

Mignosa 2022-01-24

Map

Date

Evidence

archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

building

commentary

The inscription has been interpreted by all editors as 'gift of' + an onomastic formula. It is on a fragment of a tile found in contrada Mendolito together with another one apparently written by the same hand. The two documents were initially interpreted as two funerary inscriptions (Manganaro 1961b, 110), then as a single votive inscription dedicated by magistrates to deities (Pisani 1964, 127; Whatmough 1968, 576-577; Ribezzo 1923, 224) and, more recently (Cultraro 2005), as a single inscription on the roofing slabs of a building (a house, or more likely a 'public' building) that would bear the dedication of a member of the community financing the structure. Whether these are parts of the same inscription is, however, difficult to prove due to the lack of specific details on the archaeological context and a connection - if not palaeographic - between this inscription and the other one that bears another (and different) onomastic formula (maybe the name of another donor). The alphabet is the typical one of Sikel inscriptions from the Etna area. Worthy of note, in particular, is the presence of the arrow-shaped alpha, the digamma (with value of v, see also ISic003364).

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni di Adrano in alfabeto siculo», Archeologia Classica 13 (1961): 106–12.
• U. Schmoll, ‘Neues zu den protosizilischen Inschriften’, Glotta 46 (1968): 194–206, at 19
• Alberto Zamboni, Il panorama attuale delle ricerche storico-etimologiche nel dominio italiano, Estr. da Annales / Universitatis scientiarum budapestinensis de Rolando Eotvos nominatae. Separatum Sectio linguistica 10 (Budapest, 1978), at 957; 988-989
• Luciano Agostiniani, «Epigrafia e linguistica anelleniche di Sicilia. Prospettive, problemi, acquisizioni», Kokalos 26–27 (1981 1980): 503–30, at 516

Discussion

• F. Ribezzo, «Sulle tracce della lingua dei Siculi», Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica di filologia - lingua - antichità 7 (1923): 223–26, at 224
• Vittore Pisani, Le lingue dell’Italia antica oltre il latino, 2nd ed. (Torino, 1964), at 577
• Massimo Cultraro, «Funzione e destinazione delle tegole con iscrizioni anelleniche: nuovi e vecchi dati dal Mendolito di Adrano (Catania)», Studi Etruschi 70, fasc. 3 (2005): 227–51.
• Luciano Agostiniani, «Le iscrizioni anelleniche del Museo di Adrano», in Tra Etna e Simeto. La ricerca archeologica ad Adrano e nel suo territorio (Catania, 2009), 115–18, at 117
• Paola Pelagatti, «Luigi Bernabò Brea, il Museo di Adrano e gli inizi degli scavi al Mendolito», in Tra Etna e Simeto. La ricerca archeologica ad Adrano e nel suo territorio (Catania: Biblioteca della Provincia Regionale di Catania, 2009), 16–26, at 22
• Valentina Mignosa, ‘Dall’alfabetizzazione Alla Permeabilità Selettiva. Per Una Proposta Di Lettura Della Documentazione Epigrafica Del Mendolito’, Incontri Di Filologia Classica 17 (2018 2017): 215–42, at 217, no. 2.a, pl. 4-5

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• Valentina Mignosa
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Simona Stoyanova
• system

Last revision

4/24/2025