ISic001479: Epitaph for Kleinoi

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2015-01-13

ID: ISic001479
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: stele
Status: draft
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of Dubois, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: The upper part of a funerary stele in the local limestone. The top of what may have been a recess for a panel or similar is visible on the lower edge.
Object type: stele
Material: limestone
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: cm, width: 53 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: Single line of letters incised across the top of the face
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Deeply incised, neatly regular letters; very shallow four-bar sigma.
Letter heights: Line 1: 65mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Kamarina
Provenance found: From the necropolis of Rifriscolaro, Camarina; now in Ragusa museum
Map

Current location

Place: Ragusa, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Ibleo
Autopsy: Observed 2015.01.13
Map

Date

Second half of the 6th century BCE (550 BC - 501 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

The nominative feminine form would be Κλεινώι. The exact form of the monument is not clear, perhaps made up of several elements of which this would be the uppermost. There is no full formal edition of this piece with proper study of its material form, dimensions, etc.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

12/18/2025