ISic003546: Funerary inscription, heroising
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Rizza, derived from drawings of Libertini
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Text painted on wall of a tomb
- Object type
- wall
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- plaster
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text painted in a single line on the rear wall, at its centre, in the upper part, below three pomegranates
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- Painted
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Omicron is notably smaller than the other letters; lunate sigma combined with small closed omega.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 25-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae high certainty
- Provenance found
- Tomba no. 2, Contrada Biliuzzo, Centuripe, found during work to quarry stone in 1951 (on the right side of the Centuripe-Regalbuto road, on the way out from loc. Addolorata
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Centuripe, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- in situ
Date
Portale suggests third-century BCE on the basis of the available information on the associated archaeological context. (300 BCE - 201 BCE)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The text/context offers parallels to material from both Akrai and Lilybaeum - for a full contextualisation, see Portale 2010.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645621
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900400
- PHI: 337198
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (2002), 52.0889
- G. Rizza, Scavi e ricerche a Centuripe (Catania: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2002), at 13-14 fig. 4-5
- Elisa Chiara Portale, ‘Iconografia Funeraria" e Pratiche Devozionali Nella Sicilia Ellenistica: Il "Totenmahl’, Sicilia Antiqua 7 (2010): 39–78, at 67
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/3/2022
- License
- Commons CC-BY 4.0