ISic003473: Funerary monument of (?)Simylos
- ID
- ISic003473
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- funerary monument
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- 1: Manganaro: [Σ?]ι.ύλου
- 2: Manganaro: [Κ]αλλιπίδα
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A quadrangular base, with a moulding around the lower edge, and the socket for a cylindrical column in the upper surface. The block is damaged on all sides, but parts of each face are preserved, showing that the moulding ran round all four sides, and only the front face was engraved. The block is most likely not a column capital, as suggested by Manganaro, but the base of an epitymbia style funerary monument. The inscribed face is preserved to a maximum width of 47cm. Dimensons recorded include the moulding, which projects c.5cm on each face. The stone appears to be the local breccia.
- Object type
- funerary monument
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 68 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of large Greek letters across the face above the moulding, of which the beginnings and ends are lost.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Plain square letters of regular size without serifs. Mu has vertical first and last, midstrokes descending almost to the line; Alpha appears to have straight bar. Pi has equal length hastae, with overlapping top bar.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Haluntium
- Provenance found
- Record as a casual find on via Colombo, which traverses the upper part of the hill on which the modern town stands, not far below the summit.. Now on display in the town museum.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- S. Marco d'Alunzio, Italy
- Repository
- Museo della cultura e delle Arti Figurative Bizantine e Normanne , 2
- Autopsy
- Prag, April 2006
- Map
Date
later hellenistic (200 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The name Simylos is attested at Tauromenion and Akrai in the Hellenistic period, making it the most likely restoration of the name in line 1 (although one might note that both Κωμύλος (Catania) and Μύλος (Monte Saraceno) are also attested on the island). The piece appears to be part of an epitymbion funerary monument, of a type common in Hellenistic Sicily, including along the north coast of the island (e.g. at Cefalu).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644942
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900809
- PHI: 336066
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1272
- Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999), at 42 no.22 fig.97
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/8/2025