ISic003176: Fragmentary Greek epitaph
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- ID
- ISic003176
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- funerary monument
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from Villard 1954
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Villard as on a typical epitymbia type monument, formed of a quadrangular base supporting a small column; it is unclear from Villard's brief description (which does not record dimensions or other details) whether the inscription is on the base or the column (but parallels from the necropolis strongly suggest the base, not the column).
- Object type
- funerary monument
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- 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
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- Recovered in excavation in March 1952, seemingly in the area of the Hellenistic necropolis of contrada Cardusa ('trench 3')
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tripi, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Hellenistic, 3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Villard provides no details of the stone, nor the precise location of excavation. The piece comes from trench 3 in the area of the ancient necropolis north of Pizzo Cisterna, c.1km from Piano, which appears to be consistent with the excavated necropolis of Contrada Cardusa. The inscription comes from material found in the area of a paved square and is from fragments of one of several hellenistic funerary monuments of the type common at the site, with a quadrangular base with moulding, in which is set a Doric column. The inscription was on the base of one such. If the piece comes from the necropolis, then it is unlikely to date later than the C2 BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645506
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329720
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1954), 49
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 14.0595
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021