ISic001558: An archaic epitaph
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- ID
- ISic001558
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large block of the local stone ('arenaria di Monte Rosso', so Mingazzini).
- Object type
- No data
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 56 cm, width: 120 cm, depth: 26 cm
Material
- Description
- sandstone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of letters across the upper part of the face
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 100-160mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kakyron
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations in the 1930s by Mingazzini, in re-use in 'Tower A' of a section of fourth-century BCE fortification, along with a second inscription.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Ravanusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Salvatore Lauricella
- Autopsy
- observed 2015.07.23 Metcalfe
- Map
Date
End 6th century BCE, beginning 5th century BCE (550 BC - 451 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493904
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 41300033
- PHI: 175631
- PHI: 330041
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1057
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 278 no.63
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «intervento», Kokalos 10–11 (1965 1964): 481–84, at 483
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 36
- Gallavotti (1975) at 105
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 278 no.63
- Siracusano (1996) at 89 n.7, tav.49.7
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at no.102
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026