ISic030048: Fragment of a Greek inscription on bronze
- ID
- ISic030048
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph;
- line.3: Isler: ΡΣΕ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small fragment of bronze plaque, broken on all sides
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 1.9 cm, width: 3.3 cm, depth: 0.15 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of Greek letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ietas
- Provenance found
- Found in a mediaeval layer in trench 514 during excavation of one of several mediaeval rooms in the north portico of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- San Cipirello, Italy
- Repository
- depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation , I.15
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later fourth or third century BCE (350 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The fragment is one of three metal fragments reported by Isler from the Ietas excavations (the other two, unpublished, are Latin fragments: ISic030049 and ISic030050). Isler draws comparison with the Entella tablets, and it is a reasonable assumption that this is the remains of a public text, possibly originally on display in the area of the agora or associated public buildings. The letter forms are compatible with a third-century BCE date, but precision is impossible. Isler reads the first letter of line 3 as Ρ, but omicron seems much more likely, firstly because of the unlikely sequence ΡΣ and secondly by comparison with the rho in line 1 and the theta in line 2, and the absence of any trace of a straight vertical on the left side of the letter.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 697266
- EDR: 137244
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 333357
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1257
- Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: la venticinquesima campagna di scavo», Sicilia Archeologica 28, fasc. 87–89 (1995): 19–38, at 20 with fig. 9
- Hans Peter Isler, ‘Grabungen auf dem Monte Iato 1995’, Antike Kunst 39, no. 1 (1996): 52–64, at 54 with taf. 10.5
- Discussion
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
- 4/30/2021