ISic000794: Funerary inscription for Kale
- ID
- ISic000794
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick plaque of white marble, intact on all sides, but irregular on the left and right sides. The surface is lightly pitted particularly on the lower half.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 54 cm, depth: 7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of ancient Greek filling the upper portion of the face of the stone, with a consistent left margin, the right side more cramped and irregular. The lower part of the stone is blank.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters are somewhat irregular in size, with simple straight line serifs terminating most strokes. Alpha with both broken bar and straight bar; beta both open and closed with rounded eyes; epsilon quadrate with equal length strokes; theta and omicron are rhomboid; kappa has short arms; mu has vertical first and last, short middle strokes; pi has overhanging horizontal; sigma is quadrate lunate; omega is inverted cursive form, having the appearance of mu; the pi-rho ligature is used twice; staurogram at the end of the text.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 30-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Found in Contrada Gelofia, Centuripe, 1877
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8707
- Autopsy
- Quagliana 2022-05-23
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Manni Piraino describes the clear evidence of a previously erased text ('capovolgendo infatti il pezzo saranno chiaramente evidenti le tracce lasciate dallo scalpellino che erase almeno due righe di scrittura'); this presumably relates to the at times very regular pitting visible on the lower portion of the stone, but it is not immediately clear that these must relate to earlier letters, despite their arrangement, given the unusual technique that would be implied.
As Manni Piraino observes, the joining of the K and N in the abbreviation for καλανδῶν, and the unusual form of the N in comparison to the rest of the text, suggests that this is rather a monogram forming multiple letters of the word.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 175-176
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1975.0454
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1074
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 13
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.473
- Claudia Giuffrida, ‘Aurelius Samohil between Ius and Identity’, Codex. Giornale Romanistico Di Studi Giuridici Politici e Sociali 1 (2020): 59–88, at 60-61
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Norma Quagliana
- James Cummings
- Simona Stoyanova
- Valentina Mignosa
- Last revision
- 5/31/2022