ISic001040: Fragments of a hymn honouring Apollo and the Nymphs(?)

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Pugliese Carratelli 1956 with slight changes based on Kaibel's edition.

Physical description

Support

Description

Three fragments of white marble, of which two join but the third is distinct. All are broken on all sides. Fragment 1 is H 7.8 cm x W 5 cm x D 2.7; fragment 2 is H 9.2 cm x W 8.5

Object type

plaque

Object condition

fragments

Dimensions

height: maximum preserved height 9.2 cm, width: maximum preserved width combined 17cm cm, depth: 2.7 cm

Material

Description

Very fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Göktepe, Hymettan. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)

Type > subtype

stone.marble > Lunense,Docimian,Göktepe,Hymettan

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

incomplete

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Ε type3
• Ε type3.1
• Ε type3.2
• Ε type3.3
• Ε type3.4
• Θ type1
• Θ type1.2
• Μ type2
• Μ type2.2
• Ν type2
• Ν type2.2
• Ο type1
• Π type2
• Π type2.1
• Π type2.2
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.3
• Σ type4
• Ω type3

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Acrae

Provenance found

Found in 1873 on the site of Akrai in the course of surface survey, on the same occasion as IG XIV.214

Current location

Place

Palermo, Sicilia

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas

65724

Autopsy

Observed on display but not formally autopsied

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

hymn

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 492667
• EDR: 136341
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 39102193
• PHI: 140518
• PHI: 175429
• PHI: 333747

Printed editions

• G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 219
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738.23
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0823
• G. Pugliese Carratelli, «Silloge dell’ epigrafi acrensi», in Akrai, a c. di L. Bernabó Brea (Catania, 1956), 151–81, at no.18a
• Giacomo Manganaro, «L’oracolo di Maie per una carestia in territorio siracusano», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser. 3, 11, fasc. 3–4 (1981): 1069–82, at 1079-1082
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni, epigrafi ed epigrammi in Greco della Sicilia orientale di epoca romana», Mélanges de l’École Francaise de Rome: Antiquité 106, fasc. 1 (1994): 79–118, at 112-115 no. 23
• Antonietta Brugnone, «Divinità femminili ad Akrai», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, a c. di T. Alfieri Tonini e S. Struffolino (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 115–26.

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova
• Valentina Mignosa
• Robert Crellin
• Alessia Coccato

Last revision

10/15/2025