ISic003355: Funerary altar for Thalpon
- ID
- ISic003355
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 57 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 20 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is set out over six lines within a panel of 26 x 21 cm in the form of a tabula ansata
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 15-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Contrada Reina, close to the railway line to Noto, found 13.05.1930
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 49370
- Autopsy
- Display Sector D, cippi funerari
- Map
Date
later 3rd century CE (Ferrua on letter forms) (AD 250 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Thalpon is not otherwise attested.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644860
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 217-218 no.99
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Noto greca e romana:fonti storiografiche,epigrafi e pseudo-monete», in Contributi alla geografia storica dell’agro netino. Atti delle Giornate di Studio. Noto, Palazzo Trigona, 29-31 maggio 1998, a c. di F. Balsamo e V. La Rosa (Rosolini, 2001), 73–96, at 87 no.VII bis
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 3/21/2023