ISic000909: Epitaph of Daphros
- ID
- ISic000909
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi and photograph ;
- line.1: Carini, Kaibel: ΔΑΦΡΟΕ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, damaged / roughly cut on all sides, but seemingly inscribed subsequent to any such cutting.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on two lines, with final letter of line 1 squeezed in small before the broken edge of the stone; two birds and christian monograms fill the space below.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Moderately neat and regular letters, cut with a broad groove rather than v-cut, without scerifs, but with extensions to tops of some letters (alpha, delta). alpha has broken bar; epsilon is lunate; kappa has full length arms; omicron is full size; rho has small almost closed eye; sigma is lunate but rectilinear; phi is circular with extended vertical; omega (in symbols below) is lunate.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found during exploration of the (Rotonda di Adelfia) in June 1872
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 47
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The form Daphros is not otherwise attested, and Kaibel speculates that Daphnos was intended (although Kaibel, following Carini, actually read Daphroe, which is also unparalleled). The combination of sigma, staurogram, omega between the two doves in the third line presumably signifies 'soter', 'saviour'. Kaibel simply reproduces Carini's text, without included reference to the symbols on the stone, which Carini did report (overleaf on p.34). Orsi transcribed the text and its symbols accurately in his taccuini in 1888.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492539
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102066
- PHI: 140390
- Printed editions
- I. Carini, «Annotazioni sul sarcofago rinvenuto in Siracusa», Bullettino della Commissione di Antichità e belle arti di Sicilia 5 (1872): 27–34, at p.33 no.5
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 92
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 1589
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 8
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/7/2022