ISic001386: Greek funerary inscription for Aischylos son of Chryson
- ID
- ISic001386
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text derived from Gualtherus;
- line.1: Gualtherus: ΧΙΣΧΥΛΟΣ
- line.2: Gualtherus: ΧΡΥΣΩΛΟΣ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- The stone is one of three described as 'petra nigra' by Gualtherus (1624: 50), but neither state of conservation nor dimensions are recorded.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- volcanic
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: unknown cm, width: unknown cm, depth: unknown cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is recorded over two lines without comment.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
No information recorded
- Letter heights
- Line 1: unknownmm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: unknownmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Adranon
- Provenance found
- Described by Gualtherus (1624) as coming from the ruins popularly identified with the shrine of the god Hadranus (not identified). All later editions derive from Gualtherus.
Current location
Lost.
Date
A date in the period 4th — 1st century BCE seems most likely, but it is impossible to be certain in the absence of further information (400 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The inscription was, according to Gualtherus, in the possession of Rochus Marullus, doctor of law; it has not been seen since Gualtherus. The name Aischylos (LGPN V3A: 37195) is common and well attested in Sicily (10 instances) and elsewhere (c.250 instances); but the name Chryson (LGPN V3A: 41662) is rare, with only 5 recorded instances, and this the only one from Sicily (see LGPN vol. 3A).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 50 no. 336
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 169 cl. 14 no. 34
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 180 cl. 14 no. 39
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5738
- 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 567
- S. P. Russo, Illustrazione storico-archeologica di Adernò (Atesa, 1911), at 59
- J.R.W. Prag, «Epigrafia», in Museo Regionale Saro Franco di Adrano. Le Collezioni Archeologiche, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Nicola Franceso Neri, vol. 2, 3 voll. (Palermo: Regione siciliana, 2015), 315–30, at 316-317 no. A
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/17/2022