ISic001386: Greek funerary inscription for Aischylos son of Chryson
- ID
- ISic001386
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Loading...
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
- 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
- Lettering
-
- 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 et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5738
- 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 14.0567
- 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
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 2/17/2022