ISic001952: 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
ISic001952
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 ;
  • 5: The second letter (Τ) is impossible to see in the photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a limestone stele, of which the right margin is preserved, and possibly part of the top edge (although damaged across the front face of the top); broken on the left and below. The right edge is bevelled (i.e. cut back from the front face towards the rear).
Object type
stele
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 23 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 9.5 cm

Material

Description
limestone
Type > subtype
stone.calcarenite > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
The right hand end of eight of ancient Greek, with irregular right margin depending on name length.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Plainly cut letters, somewhat worn, of fairly regular size; sigma appears slightly open, phi with extended vertical; mu with vertical first and last; overall few diagnostic forms preserved.

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
Map

Current location

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

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 ISic001951 and ISic001950. The difference of the form of theta in fragment 2 (ISic001951), compared to fragment 1 (ISic001950) suggests that the two are from different inscriptions; this could theoretically belong to either. Vinci (2022: 231) suggests that the top margin of this stone is preserved, but the upper part of the face is damaged and a line of text may be lost at the start. The text presumably continued below. The stone appears to become thinner towards the top.

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