ISic003363: Sikel funerary inscription

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Agostiniani 1992

Physical description

Support

Description

No data

Object type

plaque

Material

limestone

Condition

No data

Dimensions

height: 50 cm, width: 98 cm, depth: 29 cm

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Types list:

• Α type1
• Α type1.3
• Α type2
• Δ type1
• Δ type1.1
• Ι type1
• Ο type1
• Ρ type1
• Ρ type1.1
• Ρ type1.5
• Ρ type2
• Ρ type2.1
• Ρ type2.5

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Euboia

Provenance found

Necropolis at contrada Vigna della Signora; found October 1920, together with a second inscribed piece (ISic004391) and two uninscribed blocks

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 41697

Autopsy

Display Sector C, Licodia Eubea

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 644868
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• L.H. Jeffery, ‘Anne Jeffery Archive’ (CSAD Oxford, n.d.), J.WC.L.R, Anne Jeffery Archive, at J.WC.Leont.03a.p.01
• Guido Libertini, Le isole eolie nell’antichità greca e romana. Ricerche storiche ed archeologiche (Florence, 1921), at 124
• Emma Paino, «Nuova iscrizione sicula», Kokalos 4 (1958): 163–68.
• L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 454 no.3a
• Luciano Agostiniani, « Les parlers indigenes de la Sicile pregrecque », Lalies 11 (1992): 126‑57, at 150 no.12

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

4/24/2025