ISic001410: Epitaph for Loukiphera
- ID
- ISic001410
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text with conjectures of Ferrua; Kaibel merely reports the apograph of Morso
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Morso as a small piece of irregularly cut and broken marble, with no further details.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Seemingly near complete, laid out one word per line filling the available space on an irregularly fragment.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ustica
- Provenance found
- Described by Morso in 1823 as recently found by the Principe di Trabia, on the island of Ustica. Not seen subsequently.
Current location
Lost
Date
Ferrua suggests that it is roughly co-eval with the Syracusan epitaph for Euskia, which uses a similar date of death formulation () (AD 400 – AD 449)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493027
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101539
- PHI: 140919
- Printed editions
- Salvadore Morso, «Lettera del beneficiale dot. Salvadore Morso ... al sig. D. Agostino Gallo», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 4 (1823): 166–68, at 168 and drawing
- 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 14.0592
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 237 no.133
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/11/2025