ISic001468: Epitaph of Agasias, son of Karias
- ID
- ISic001468
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Upper part of a stele of pale yellow limestone stele
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- tufa limestone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 37 cm, depth: 27 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines, laid out boustrophedon
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 30-60mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found in the necropolis of contrada Bagliazzo, during excavations by the Soprintendenza; currently on display in Palermo museum.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8802
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
550—500 BCE (550 BC - 501 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Note di epigrafia siceliota», Kokalos 13 (1967): 194–201, at 194 no.1 pl.28.1
- Michel Lejeune, « Notes d’épigraphie sicilienne », Kokalos 16 (1970): 16‑29, at 19
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 84
- Margherita Guarducci, «Un epitafio arcaico di Selinunte», Rendiconti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 8.27 (1973): 191–94.
- G. Daux, « Notes de lecture », Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 99 (1975): 145‑71, at 148-150
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 75
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.29
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Note epigrafiche selinuntine», Thalassa 3 (2006): 45–123, at A4 tav.4.20
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025