ISic003091: Funerary inscription for two men called Silanos

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ID: ISic003091
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: aedicola
Status: draft
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Edition

‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583 Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Giustolisi as reported in SEG

Physical description

Support

Description: Text is set in a rectangular panel immediately below a substantial (c.1m tall) rock-cut aedicola in a low cliff
Object type: aedicola
Material: natural rock
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: Text over two lines
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Thermae Selinuntiae
Provenance found: First reported by Giustolisi 1982, a rupestral site in contrada Grattevole, 10.5km NNE of Sciacca
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Current location

Place: Sciacca, Italy
Repository: in situ
Autopsy: None

Date

3rd century BCE (300 BC - 201 BC)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Giustolisi proposed that it was a dedication to or invovation of the divinity Silenos, but Manganaro, and Moretti (comm in SEG) instead suggest that it is a funerary aedicola for two men called Silenos, perhaps father and son, with the designation as heroes agathoi, as is common in the later Hellenistic period.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/25/2025