ISic030319: ISic030319

Apparatus criticus

• Text after autopsy.

Physical description

Support

Description

.

Object type

belt

Material

bronze

Condition

complete, broken

Dimensions

height: 9.5 cm, dim: cm, width: 90 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on two lines over the entire length of the belt; the first line is 49 cm long, the second 57 cm.

Text condition

legible

Lettering

Types list:

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Α type3
• Ε type2.3
• Ε type2.3.1
• Ε type2.3.2
• Ε type2.6
• Η type1
• Θ type1
• Θ type1.4
• Ι type1
• Κ type1
• Κ type1.1
• Κ type1.4
• Ν type1
• Ν type1.2
• Ν type2
• Ν type2.2
• Ο type3
• Ο type5
• Π type1
• Π type1.1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.5
• Τ type2
• Τ type2.1
• Ω type1

Letter heights

Line 1: 25-30mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Palikè

Provenance found

Found outside of the city wall along the northeast side of the hill of Palikè by the local landowner Sig. A. Tranquillità (Gentili 1962).

Map

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 56674

Autopsy

Mignosa 2021-01-17

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

votive

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• G.V. Gentili, «Cinturone Eneo con Dedica da Palikè», Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 69–70 (1963 1962): 14–20.

Discussion

• G. Tagliamonte, I Figli di Marte: Mobilità, Mercenari e Mercenariato Italici in Magna Grecia e Sicilia (Roma, 1994), at 146-148
• Laura Maniscalco and B.E. McConnell, ‘The Sanctuary of the Divine Palikoi (Rocchicella Di Mineo, Sicily): Fieldwork from 1995 to 2001’, American Journal of Archaeology 107, no. 2 (2003): 145–80, at 147

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

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

Last revision

4/24/2025