ISic001875: 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, with maeander border surrounding a floor area with regular white inlay; at the northern edge, the remains of an 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.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed inside a rounded tabula ansata; only the right hand end of the text/tabula is preserved.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- inlaid
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hybla Gereatis
- Provenance found
- Excavated (removed and consolidated) in 2004 in excavation imediately to the north of the chiesa di Cristo al Monte on the acropolis of Paternò, found above three brick arches, and the strata below included amphora stamps datable to 220-180 BCE, providing a terminus post quem
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Paterno, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
second century BCE (180 BC - 101 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.8
- Laura Maniscalco, «L’acropoli di Paternò attraverso il tempo», Sicilia Antiqua 10 (2013): 253–61, at 256 fig.7
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/2/2024