ISic000992: Epitaph of Syrakosios
- ID
- ISic000992
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph ;
- line.1: Orsi: ΕΙΠ
- line.5: Kaibel (after Mommsen): ΑΒΟΥΙ (sic); Agnello: ΑΒΟΥ(Ν)Δ
- line.6: Orsi: ANTIAE
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A grey marble plaque, intact (but lightly chipped) on all sides, but very irregular on left, right and below, only have a straight edge across the top.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 19 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Six lines of text, of which the first four are neatly and regularly set out between guidelines, but the final two are squeezed into the remaining space, centred but unevenly and without guidelines.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Clear V-cut letters without serifs of somewhat uneven width, consistent height over the first four lines, more irregular thereafter. Alpha with broken bar and stroke rising off the apex; Beta with closed but separated eyes; delta with stroke rising off the apex; epsilon lunate in line 1 but regular in line 2; theta ovoid with full straight cross-bar; kappa has full length arms; mu has vertical first and last, and short middle strokes; omicron varies in size and from round to ovoid; pi is equal length with overlapping horizontal; rho has small closed eye; sigma is lunate, but rectilinear; omega is lunate and small above the line.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Among material excavated by Cavalleri in the
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 110
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later 3rd - 5th century CE (AD 251 - AD 500)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Carini published the editio princeps of this text, and is in fact the only editor to read it completely accurately. Kaibel followed a transcription of Mommsen, who failed to read the small delta at the end of line 5, while Orsi was misled by the damage to the final sigma on line 6 and struggled to resolve the initial vertical strokes of line 1. Agnello appears to have followed Kaibel's text and assumed that the vertical at the end of line 5 was part of a nu, to be suppressed.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492619
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102146
- PHI: 140470
- Printed editions
- I. Carini, «Rassegna archeologica», Archivio Storico Siciliano 2 (1874): 506–14, at 511 no.12
- 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 172
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.11
- 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. 1, p. 88
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/29/2021