ISic003478: Funerary inscription for the son of Artemon
- ID
- ISic003478
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro and photograph.;
- 1: There is a possible trace of the final sigma, and if genuine, the sigma is four-bar, not lunate (autopsy is needed)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a limestone plaque or stele, broken left, right and below, seemingly intact above
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 12.5-15 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines, damaged at either end, seemingly centered
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 35-50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Monte Artesino di Nicosia
- Provenance found
- Said to havebeen found on
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Aci Castello, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium e museo civico di Aci Castello
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
More likely late hellenistic than early imperial (lunate omega not before the second century BCE and rare on stone so early) (Unknown – Unknown)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
It is likely that the idionym, in nominative/vocative, of the deceased is missing from the left side of the stone (rather than in the space above); if so, then the original stone would be perhaps twice as wide, and Manganaro's suggestion that the word χρηστὲ is missing at the start of line 2 i plausible. There is a clear vacat above line 1, whether the top of the stone is intact or not, and also after the final word of line 2. The lunate omega is notable in a text that is otherwise very square and regular in form; the date is uncertain.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645099
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900813
- PHI: 336137
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 49.1299
- 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.17 fig.94
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
- 10/2/2021