ISic001951: Fragment of a list of names

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001951
Language
Ancient Greek
Status
draft
Text type
list
Object type
stele

Edition

Marco Vinci, «Onomastica e suddivisioni civiche ad Akrai alla luce di nuovi frammenti epigrafici», Mediterraneo Antico 25 (2022): 229–40 Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Vinci 2022, controlled against photograph (addition of underdots, trace letters, and vacats) ;
  • 1: Vinci: alternatively Ἡρακλ[είδα]
  • 5: Vinci: alternatively Ἡρακλεί[δα]
  • 6: Vinci: alternatively Ἡρα[κλείδα]
  • 7: Vinci: alternatively Ἡρα[κλείδα]

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a limestone stele, broken on all sides
Object type
stele
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 19 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 6.5 cm

Material

Description
limestone
Type > subtype
stone.calcarenite > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
Parts of 8 lines of ancient Greek, no margins preserved.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Plainly cut letters, seemingly slightly irregular in size, heavily worn. Alpha possibly with broken bar; theta with central dot rather than cross-bar; sigma appears slightly open

Letter heights
Line 1-8: 11-16mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Acrae
Provenance found
Found during excavations in 2008-2009 on the mediaeval castle of Palazzolo Acreide, in the proximity of foundations of a building on the summit of the rock, attributed to an extra-mural sanctuary of the Greek period
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Current location

Place
Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository
Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa
Autopsy
none
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Date

3rd or 2nd century BCE (300 BC - 101 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

list

commentary

One of three fragments found in the area of the mediaeval castle. The three fragments may or may not belong to the same inscription. See also ISic001950 and ISic001952. The difference of the form of theta in comparison to fragment 1 (ISic001950) strongly suggests that this is not part of the same stone as fragment 1; if the original rear is preserved, then the stone is less thick than the other two fragments also. Vinci (2022: 231) suggests that the left margin of this stone is preserved (presumably at lines 3-5), but this is not obvious from the photograph, and the space or lacuna prior to the name Παυσανίας at the start of line 4 suggests that this is not the left margin, since a list of names would be expected to preserve a consistent left margin.

Bibliography

Digital editions
  • TM: -
  • EDR: -
  • EDH: -
  • EDCS: -
  • PHI: -
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/7/2025