ISic001424: I.Sicily inscription 001424
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Guarducci 1986-1988
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large block of limestone reused in a later (Hellenistic) wall, near the SW gate of the Hellenistic city. The block tapers in both dimensions, and is very worn. The text begins on the front face and continues on the left side face.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 108 cm, width: 62-44 cm, depth: 39-22 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line a.1 to a.8: 40-75mm
- Line b.9 to b.10: 50-58mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found in 1953 in re-use in the Hellenistic wall near the SW gate.
Current location
- Place
- Megara Hyblaea, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Megara Hyblaia
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Beginning 6th century BCE (600 BC - 551 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1997.0723, 0728
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1263
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0945
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0833
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.1804
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 27.0652
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1084
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 141-143 no.5 fig.30
- C. Gallavotti, «Scritture della Sicilia ed altre epigrafi arcaiche», Helikon 17 (1977): 97–136, at 107-109
- Margherita Guarducci, «Epigrafi arcaiche di Siracusa e di Megara Iblea», Archeologia Classica 38–39 (1988 1986): 1–26, at 13 no.2
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 20
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.13
- Renato Arena, «Per la lettura di un’iscrizione di Megara Iblea», La Parola del Passato 51 (1996): 46–48.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Studi di epigrafia siceliota», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 9.7 (1996): 27–63, at 52-56 no.10, fig.20-21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/4/2023