ISic001684: Greek funerary inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001684
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Agnello ;
  • line.3: In the drawing, NTA is clear, and alternative interpretations (a larger number in the tens) should be considered

Physical description

Support

Description
A limestone cippus recut for building stone at a later date, with material sawn off from the left side and the lower edge.
Object type
stele
Material
limestone
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 60 cmwidth: 44.5 cmdepth: 27 cm

Inscription

Layout
Text laid out with separating lines on the lower portion of the stone, filling the width, with a blank space above.
Text condition
incomplete #text_condition, partly_illegible
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 36mm
Line 2-4: 31-36mm
Line 5: 47mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Priolo Gargallo
Provenance found
Found during agricultural works on the property of the marchese di Castel Lentini, 15m to the east of the farmhouse, in the territory of Priolo
Map

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 50674
Autopsy
Not yet observed
Map

Date

Imperial period (1st-3rd centuries CE) (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

The letters in the final line are larger, but it is not immediately clear from the drawing that they must be in a second hand (the assumption of Agnello is that they were written later). Judgement on this point, and the preferred reading of line 3 should be reserved until autopsy is possible.

Bibliography

Digital editions
  • TM: -
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  • EDH: -
  • EDCS: -
  • PHI: -
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/15/2021