ISic030331: Phylacterion on bronze
- ID
- ISic030331
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- prayer
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- preliminary text following Sciacca 1982-1983;
- 16: Sciacca reads the final 5 characters as poorly formed Hebrew letters
- 23: penultimate symbol is a crossed circle
- 24: final symbol is a rectangle with horizontal crossbar
- 28: Sciacca reads the final 9 characters as poorly formed Hebrew letters (line misnumbered as 29 in Sciacca's edition)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Bronze lamina, damaged on the right hand edge and along the lower edge.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 9.5 cm, width: 3 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over 32 lines
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-32: 2mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Philosophiana
- Provenance found
- From the area of Sofiana, but not more precisely located (although the site includes a synagogue)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 82071
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
4th-5th century CE (AD 401 – AD 500)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0844
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 33.0754
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0886
- Sergio Sciacca, «Phylakterion con iscrizione magica greco-ebraica proveniente dalla Sicilia sud-occidentale», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 87–104, at 87-104
- D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), at no.159
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025