ISic003710: Epitaph of Neon son of Donax
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- ID
- ISic003710
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Copani 2014 with slight changes based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Stele in the local limestone, damaged below.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 50 cm, width: 30 cm, depth: 18 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The first two lines are centred and regular, but increasingly irregular thereafter.
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The first two lines show neat broad regular letters of late classical/early hellenistic date: N with raised right hasta; E with shorter middle bar; omega large and open with short horizontal tails; sigma with open top and bottom strokes, alpha broad with straight bar. After line 2 the letters become more irregular
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kamarina
- Provenance found
- Contrada Piombo, localita Bellaccio, rescue excavation by G. Di Stefano (undated), area of a small necropolis
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Santa Croce Camerina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Kamarina
- Autopsy
- in stores
- Map
Date
4th century BCE (400 BC - 301 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The first two lines have the clear and standard form of a simple funerary stele. The complication arises with the increasingly illegible, irregular and seemingly incoherent letters which follow from line 3, and which seem in part at least to repeat the material of lines 1-2. Copani proposes that it should perhaps be understood as some sort of 'writing exercise' by a second, less-skilled lapicide, although this seems peculiar on a funerary stele.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Di Stefano, Camarina. Le acquisizioni, il museo tematico, la collezione «Biagio Pace», il lapidario (Ispica: Tipografia Kromatografica / Il Museo Regionale di Camarina, 2013), at 30 ph
- Fabio Copani, «Un esercizio di scrittura su una stele da Contrada Piombo (Camarina)», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, a c. di Teresa Alfieri Tonini e Stefano Struffolino, Aristonothos, Quaderni 4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 197–201.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/18/2025