ISic004383: Dedication to Orion, guardian of the Straits
- ID
- ISic004383
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ollà 2017 and photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular tablet of fine white marble, with a break down the middle and minor chipping to the edges. The rear is lightly convex, and smooth; the remains of a border along the upper rear face suggest the tablet has been re-used for the inscription.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17-18 cm, width: 44 cm, depth: 3.5-4.5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters. The text observes a strict left margin, uneven at the right. The lines are regularly spaced and of equal height.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate Greek letters, neatly and regularly engraved, with only lightly pronounced terminal serifs. Alpha has an upward-sloping cross-bar. Beta is closed with almost equal eyes. Delta and Lambda extend the right hasta above the letter. Theta and Omicron are ovoid in form. Mu generally has vertical first and last strokes,with the middle-point only descending half-way.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 13mm
- Line 2: 10-12mm
- Line 3: 10-12mm
- Line 4: 10-13mm
- Line 5: 10-13mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 5: 12-14mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Found in secondary deposition in excavations of the mid-1990s in isola 84 at the corner of via E. Geraci and via C. Battisti, Messina
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- No data
- ME 28244
- Autopsy
- in store
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- A. Ollà, «Orione, “Signore di Zancle dal bel porto e del capo Peloro”? Prime osservazioni su un’epigrafe da via Geraci.», in Da Zancle a Messina 2016. Nuovi dati di archeologia urbana, a c. di G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2017), 173–76.
- Daniele Castrizio e Claudio Meliadò, «Sulla prima iscrizione metrica da Zancle», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020): 66–71, at 66-71
- Emiliano Arena, «Miti dello Stretto: Orione al Peloro», in Quando parlano i classici. Raccolta Saggi delle edizioni i-vi dell’Agon Zanklaios, a c. di Emiliano Arena e P. Danzè, Lessico & Cultura 13 (Messina, 2020), 121–30, at 121-130
- Girolamo Sofia, «L’eco dei luoghi di un mito dalla Sicilia orientale, per una nuova interpretazione di una straordinaria epigrafe di I-II sec. d.C.», Epigraphica 85 (2023): 666–76, at 666-676
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021