ISic001209: Epitaph of Philisto
- ID
- ISic001209
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular sandstone cippus, slightly damaged on the lower left corner
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- sandstone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 43.5 cm, width: 30.5 cm, depth: 14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Single line of Greek letters across the middle of the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular plain letters. Phi is slightly taller than the rest, but with a small circular eye; sigma has horizontal top and bottom bars, with the diagonals joined by a curve; omicron is smaller than the other letters and mid-line.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
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 , 8790
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Φιλιστώ is not common; it is also attested in Sicily in the theatre seat inscriptions of ISic001262 (Taormina). 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.b
- 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 382d
- SGDI Hoffmann (1904) at 5208d
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 123
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 107 and fig.110
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021