ISic001399: Epitaph for Euphrainon
- ID
- ISic001399
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy;
- 3: Ansaldi: ΚΑΙΡΕ
- 4: Ansaldi: ΕΖΕΣΑΣ
- 3: Ansaldi: ΕΤΕ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A grey marble plaque, intact on the upper and right sides, seemingly damaged on the left and lower sides, although the text appears complete, and the stone tapers to the lower edge (the layout may imply that a balancing hedera is missing upper left, but the clear lack of such on line 3 is probably against this). The rear is rough and uneven, with traces of mortar.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 20.8 cm, width: 25.4 cm, depth: 2.9 (maximum) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines, approximately centred on the stone, except for line 5 which is aligned to the left margin.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters plain and somewhat crudely v-cut, without serifs, of regular height. Alpha with broken and straight bar; regular quadrate epsilon and sigma; theta close to rhomboid; mu with diagonal strokes, middle strokes meet at half height; nu with diagonal joining well above the baseline; phi is rhomboid and extended; uncial omega.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 23-26 (omega 22, phi 36)mm
- Line 5: 18-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Found in January 1842 between 'la valle della Difesa' and 'le terre nominate di Clerici'; acquired by Giuseppe Polizzi, where seen by a traveller in 1844, and subsequently by Ansalsdi. Kaibel could not locate it. It was purchased by Orsi for the Siracusa museum in 1914. Currently in storage in magazzino B, cassetta 4.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 35827
- Autopsy
- Prag 2014-09-10
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493015
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101527
- PHI: 140907
- Printed editions
- anonymous (1844) at 992 no.2
- F. Ansaldi, I monumenti dell’antica Centuripi (Centuripae, 1851), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/buch/3254, at 51 no. 15
- 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 580
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/7/2025