ISic003546: Funerary inscription, heroising

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ID: ISic003546
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: wall

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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 BC - 201 BC)

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

Printed editions

‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 52.0889
G. Rizza, Scavi e ricerche a Centuripe (Catania: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2002), at 13-14 fig. 4-5
Portale (2010) at 67

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/3/2022