ISic003380: Ash chest for Pompeios Elpistos
- ID
- ISic003380
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- ash chest
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy (Prag 2013). The text reported by IG 14.45a was transcribed by Salvator Politi and sent to Mommsen in 1884, but it is clear that Politi either lacked good lighting, or experience, or both, since all the points marked as omitted or unclear are in fact perfectly legible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular plain limestone ash chest, with a lid with plain moulding. Lid, not included in measurements below, is 68mm high.
- Object type
- ash chest
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 47 cm, depth: 39 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters, centred on the wide face of the chest and laid out between guide lines.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 23-32mm
- Line 2: 19-25mm
- Line 3: 17-25mm
- Line 4: 15-23mm
- Line 5: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found during exploration of predio di avv. Avolio, behind convent of S.Lucia, Siracusa, as inv. no. 15410, in early 1880s
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 15411
- Autopsy
- Depositi, Mag C
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The context of discovery is described in NSA (1884), 163 but without explicit reference to this piece, only to ISic003338. The reading provided in IG 14.45a is clearly deficient, and the text is fully legible. The urn was previously on display in Room 3 of the old archaeological museum in Siracusa, recorded in the 1929 guide by Libertini. It is currently in storage in the Museo Archeologico Regionale P. Orsi, Siracusa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645608
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 140340
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0045a
- Guido Libertini, Il regio museo archeologico di Siracusa, Guide dei musei italiani (Roma: La Libreria dello stato, 1929), at 125
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 50
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
- 1/19/2021