ISic004517: Mason's mark (pi) from the Ionic temple at Syracuse
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- ID
- ISic004517
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- block
- Text type
- mason's mark
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- 1: Text after Guzzardi 2012, 174 n. 61.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The incised sign resembles the Greek letter pi.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Recorded in situ on a limestone block belonging to the same masonry structure within the perimeter of the cella as the block bearing the sigma-shaped mark (ISic004516), beneath the municipal building east of Palazzo Vermexio, Ortygia, Syracuse
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa,
- Repository
- Ionic temple
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Late 6th to early 5th century BCE (525 BCE - 475 BCE)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Guzzardi records this sign, resembling Greek pi, on one of two further blocks in the same masonry structure within the perimeter of the cella as the block bearing the sigma-shaped mark. The publication supplies neither an illustration nor measurements of the individual block. Its context places it within the same construction phase, dated to the late sixth or early fifth century BCE. Comparable signs on blocks from the temple are interpreted as setting-out marks used to guide their positioning and orientation.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
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- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/31/2026
- License
- Commons CC-BY 4.0