ISic001950: Fragmentary 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
ISic001950
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 and vacats)

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of the right side of a stele of local limestone. The right margin only is preserved, broken on the other three sides. The right margin is bevelled, i.e. cut back at an angle from the front face.
Object type
stele
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 38 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 9 cm

Material

Description
limestone
Type > subtype
stone.calcarenite > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
The right hand end of 16 lines of text preserved, with an irregular margin reflecting the lengths of the individual names.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Plainly cut letters with a fairly square module and of fairly regular height throughout. Straight bar alpha; Epsilon has long horizontals of equal length; theta comparable to omicron (slightly ovoid), with full barkappa has full length arms; Mu has vertical first and last, middle strokes three-quarter length; xsi has three equal length horizontals; rho has small closed eiey; sigma has horizaontal top and bottom; phi has ovoid eye, with tall vertical; omega varies from circular to tear-drop, always closed on a horizontal foot.

Letter heights
Line 1-16: 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

2nd century BCE (200 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 ISic001951 and ISic001952. Differences in palaeography suggest that fragments 1 (ISic001950) and 2 (ISic001951) are separate at least.

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