ISic003424: Epitaph of Lamnos Kornelios Alkinon

Photo J. Prag, 2014-09-10, by permission of Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
ID
ISic003424
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Rectangular off-white marble plaque broken down the middle and reconnected. Seemingly intact, but chipped along the left and top edges. The rear is smooth.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
complete, broken
Dimensions
height: 21.6 cm, width: 29.5 cm, depth: 1.7-2.0 cm

Inscription

Layout
Five lines of Greek text, centred on the stone, with a consistent left margin, and final line (numerals) centred between ivy leaves.
Text condition
complete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Letters are deeply v-cut, somewhat elongated, and showing some tendency towards curvature in e.g. the M. Minial use of serifs. Lunate omega, but rectilinear epsilon and sigma. Alpha with broken bar; mu with four full-length, slanting strokes; kappa with short ams; omicron ovoid but full height; epsilon tall and thin, all bars of equal length; zeta an equal length Z. Use of interpunct to mark off the names, and hedera around the numeral.

Letter heights
Line 1: 29-38mm
Line 2: 25-30mm
Line 3-5: 30-34mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Centuripae
Provenance found
No data

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 25253
Autopsy
Exact details not recorded, found in Centuripe prior to 1906, and purchased for the Siracusa museum by Paolo Orsi, 1906-01-24; currently in storage, Magazzino B, cassette 4.
Map

Date

1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/1/2022