ISic001208: Epitaph for Oltiskos
- ID
- ISic001208
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- text of IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular cippus of local sandstone, heavily damaged on the left, along the base, and the upper right corner.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- sandstone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 43 cm, width: 31.5 cm, depth: 14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Greek letters, centred on the front face of the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neat, but irregularly sized letters. Omicron is smaller than the rest and mid-line; sigma is regular with horizontal top and bottom bars; kappa is tall with short arms, slightly curving out form the middle of the upright; alpha has straight bar (and in the second case is larger; epsilon has shorter middle bar.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 30-50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- From the area of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8702
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Ὀλτίσκος is not otherwise attested. The patronymic, Ἀριστέας, on the other hand is very common, and in Sicily is attested on the eastern side of the island (principally nearby Tauromenion, but also Syracusae, Akrai, and Lipara). The use of the nominative for the deceased is less common on the inscribed epitaphs from Abakainon, but not unknown. Although dated on the grounds of letter forms to the C2-1 BC by Manni Piraino, the evidence from the necropolis suggests the range C3-2 BC is more plausible.
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 464 no.c
- 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 14.0382c
- SGDI Hoffmann (1904) at 5208c
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 124
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 107 and fig.111
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021