ISic001435: Funerary kouros for a doctor

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Manni Piraino 1975

Physical description

Support

Description

A kouros statue, serving as a funerary 'sema', with an inscription carved vertically on the left leg. The statue has been demonstrated to be made of Naxian marble from Melanes.

Object type

statue

Object condition

No data

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description

Coarse-grained, homogeneous, white, calcitic marble, likely Naxian. Optical microscopy: heteroblastic fabric with mosaic microstructure, strained crystals. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic fabric. Published in Basile and Lazzarini 2012 (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, published optical microscopy, published stable isotopes)

Type > subtype

stone.marble > Naxian

Provenance

Tyros, Greece

Map

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

No data

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Types

• Α type1
• Α type1.2
• Α type1.3
• Δ type1
• Δ type1.1
• Ε type2.2
• Ι type1
• Λ type1
• Μ type3
• Μ type3.1
• Ν type2
• Ν type2.1
• Ο type1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.1
• Τ type2
• Τ type2.1

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Megara Hyblaea

Provenance found

Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Sicilia

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi

49401

Autopsy

Display Sector B, Megara Hyblaea

Map

Date

Evidence

lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 644978
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 64800228
• PHI: 329724
• PHI: 333756

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 61.0752
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 39.1007
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0850
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 32.1651
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0834
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0924
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1101
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 14.0599
• L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.25 pl.52
• M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 143-144 no.7
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 22
• A.W. Johnston, ‘Aeginetans Abroad’, Horos 7 (1989): 131–35, at 135
• L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.25 pl.52
• E. Samama, Les médecins dans le monde grec. Sources épigraphiques sur la naissance d’un corps medical (Geneva, 2003), at no.511

Discussion

• Beatrice Basile and Lorenzo Lazzarini, ‘The Archaeometric Identification of the Marbles of the Greek Statuary and Architectural Elements of the “Paolo Orsi” Museum in Syracuse’, Marmora 8 (2012): 11–32, at 12, 24

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova
• Valentina Mignosa
• Robert Crellin
• Alessia Coccato

Last revision

10/15/2025