ISic003640: Epitaph for Elpidephoros and Nike
- ID
- ISic003640
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A stele in the form of a 'horned' altar, in local limestone. The lefthand horn is slightly damaged. The upper part of the face is deocrated with a series of five incised horizontal lines to imitate mouldings. The space between the top two of these is decorated by a broad incised zig-zig. Most of the face is left plain and roughly finished/smoothed, to be occupied by the inscription. There is a projection at the base, partly damaged.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 81 cm, width: 38 cm, depth: 16 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on the upper half of the front face, filling the available width, below two large hederae.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Alpha with straight bar; lunate epsilon and sigma; uncial mu and omega; rhomboid omicron, theta and phi.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ispica
- Provenance found
- Contrada Carrubba (), proprieta Fidelio, at km 8 on the Ispica-Pachino road
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo
- Autopsy
- none, but seen on display (on the stairs) in the museum, 2015.01.13.
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (AD 101 - AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645706
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900998
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/10/2025