ISic003321: Funerary inscription of Boulis
- ID
- ISic003321
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- Slab
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Line1: Manganaro: [ὁ δεῖνα Εὐ]βουλί-; Orsi [Εὐ]βουλί[δα]
- Line2: Manganaro: [δα χρηστέ ]χαῖρε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large quadrangular slab of sandstone, intact and finished on all sides, but left rough on the reverse
- Object type
- Slab
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 64 cm, width: 75 cm, depth: 12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- One word on each of two lines, with clear space at the end of each line as well as above and below
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 170mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Menae
- Provenance found
- Found in 1903 by a local small holder while digging in contrada Sparagagna, Mineo, location of an ancient necropolis.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 23255
- Autopsy
- 2013.10.02
- Map
Date
Hellenistic (300 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Βοῦλις is rare but attested at least 7 times across the Greek world according to LGPN s.v. Βοῦλις, although not so far in Sicily. Consequently, the suggested expansion of the first line to the more common name Εὐβουλίδας, first proposed by Orsi, and subsequently by Manganaro, appears unnecessary - an assumption that finds support both in the fact that the stone is clearly intact and the text carefully laid out with space above, below and after the visible letters, and because the formula 'vocative + χαῖρε' is attested more than once in other epitaphs from Mineo.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645575
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900814
- PHI: 336159
- 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 436-437 ph
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5254
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1308.A
- Guido Libertini, Il regio museo archeologico di Siracusa, Guide dei musei italiani (Roma: La Libreria dello stato, 1929), at 123
- Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999), at 42 no.18
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021