ISic001874: Pavement with opus signinum greeting
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- white tesserae set into a cocciopesto pavement in both maeander patterns and black-and-white tesserae rosettes, with the inscription set in a rounded tabula ansata form.
- Object type
- pavement
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.mosaic > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed inside a rounded tabula ansata.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- inlaid
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Adranon
- Provenance found
- Recovered in 1980 as a result of illegal excavation on via Grosseto immediately to the south-east of archaeologically investigated hellenistic housing in an insula on 'strada 1', proprieta Lazzaro-Di Guardia.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Adrano, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Adrano
- 11602
- Autopsy
- None
Date
third century BCE (300 BC - 201 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Umberto Spigo, «Indagini ad Adranon 1977-1986: punti fermi e problemi», in Tra Etna e Simeto: la ricerca archeologica ad Adrano e nel suo territorio, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna (Catania: Biblioteca della Provincia Regionale di Catania, 2009), 119–28, at 126 fig.9
- Gioconda Lamagna, «Adrano. Storia e archeologia dell’insediamento antico», in Museo regionale Saro Franco di Adrano. Le Collezioni Archeologiche, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Nicola Franceso Neri (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2015), 173–97, at 186 fig.14
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025