ISic004277: Epitaph erected by Hilara for her daughter

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic004277
Language: Latin
Text type: No data
Object type: stele
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text according to ILipara 767

Physical description

Support

Description: Stele of volcanic stone (pietra di Fuardo)
Object type: stele
Material: volcanic
Condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 58 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: 9 cm

Inscription

Layout: Text over two lines, large somewhat irregular letters across the middle of the front face.
Text condition: complete
Letter heights: Line 1 to 2: 52-68mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lipara
Provenance found: Found in 1952 in trench XII (property of the Lipari Orphanage), in re-use of the W side of Tomb 193.

Current location

Place: Lipari, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 984
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

Imperial (first three centuries CE) (AD 1 – AD 300)

Evidence: No data

Text type

No data

commentary

It is also possible to imagine that final E has been dropped from Hilara and so 'filiae' is descriptive of Hilara instead, implicitly erected by her parent(s).

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

L. Bernabò Brea, M. Cavalier, e L. Campagna, Meligunìs Lipára. XII. Le iscrizioni lapidarie greche e latine delle isole eolie (Palermo: Mario Grispo Editore, 2003), at 767

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

6/17/2022