ISic001397: Epitaph for Glykera
- ID
- ISic001397
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque of grey limestone. Intact top and right, minor damaged to the lower edge; broken on the left, especially upper left corner (loss of part of first letter of text). A long deep vertical stroke funs up the left margin, of which the upper part is lost. The rear is finished smooth. A hole for a metal fixing peg is visible in the middle of the upper edge (early modern, for display?).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 23.8 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 1.9-2.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The layout is unusual, with the text centred in a pseudo-stoichedon, the letters equal in number on each line, irrespective of word-breaks, and vertically aligned, and the final empty letter space in line 5 occupied by a hedera.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 26-28 (Ε is 20)mm
- Line 2: 21-23 (Σ is 18)mm
- Line 3: 23-25 (Ε is 20)mm
- Line 4: 20-24mm
- Line 5: 21-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 10mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 10mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 15mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 10mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Found in February 1841 by a farmer, in proximity to the road running from the chiesa dell'Addolorata towards Acquanova, who gave it to D. Giuseppe Polizzi (where first reported by a traveller in 1844). Purchased by Siracusa Museum in 1914; currently in cassetta 4, Magazzino B.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 35826
- Autopsy
- Prag 2014-09-11
- Map
Date
1st-3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493012
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101524
- PHI: 140904
- Printed editions
- anonymous (1844) at 992 no.3
- F. Ansaldi, I monumenti dell’antica Centuripi (Centuripae, 1851), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/buch/3254, at 51 no. 14
- 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 14.0578
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025