ISic003432: Epitaph for Biktoria
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- ID
- ISic003432
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A cippus of the local limestone, quadrangular in section, damaged above and below (mouldings lost), with a marble plaque (21x26cm) inserted into the face, and with a further text inscribed below on the front face of the cippus.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone and marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 51 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- First five lines of text centred on marble plaque, with little respect for word-division; three continuous lines immediately below.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate epsilon and sigma; uncial omega.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Dianae Fons
- Provenance found
- Recovered in 1934 from a tomb in the necropolis under via Tenente Meli, Comiso; observed by Manganaro c.1962 in the entranceway to the Scuola di Arte, Comiso
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Comiso, Italy
- Repository
- Scuola di Arte
- Autopsy
- None
Date
3rd century CE (AD 201 - AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The first editors assumed that the second part of the text was perhaps written at a different time / by a different hand, but Manganaro assumes the role of a workshop in preparing the 'standard' imprecation below the tablet. In any case, the difference between the larger marble letters and the smaller letters cut onto the limestone base is already sufficient explanation for any difference. Manganaro rightly comments on the selective use of the more precious marble (this practice more familiar from statue bases). The final line is of very uncertain interpretation, appearing to show multiple errors in carving.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644827
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- 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 467-468 no.13
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 199-200 no.72
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Graffiti e iscrizioni funerarie della Sicilia orientale», Helikon 2 (1962): 485–501, at 500-501 fig.9
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/28/2025