ISic001159: Funerary epitaph for Phaino
- ID
- ISic001159
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large slab of grey/brown stone. Forms a pair with , as they are similar in size, material, and the form and shape of the letters. All sides are almost square, but for the broken top left corner. The back is almost flat, but there is a slight taper on the sides towards the back
- Object type
- No data
- Material
- stone (grey)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22.8 cm, width: 32.5 cm, depth: 9.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek text, roughly centred on stone. Clear use of inscribed guidelines on top and bottom of each line.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 39 (phi in line 1: 49mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the inscription is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 147
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 12, shelf 3
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (?) (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The simple use of the genitive for Zopyros means that we cannot tell whether Phaino is his wife or daughter. Given, however, the similarities with ISic001160, it is likely that this is the same man, therefore we can reconstruct his name as Zopyros son of Artemon. There are half a dozen other mentions of the name Zopyros in Sicily and it is quite common elsewhere, whereas Phanoi is rarer, appearing in an inscription from Athens (CIG. I.1013).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492771
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102315
- PHI: 140644
- Printed editions
- 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 14.0340.1
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Iscrizione greche del museo civico di Termini Imerese», Kokalos 20 (1974): 218–64, at 11
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2024