ISic004362: I.Sicily inscription 004362
- ID
- ISic004362
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy;
- 1: Manganaro suggests: [Φά]υλλος or [Θέ]υλλος
- 2: Manganaro suggests: [Δε]ιφίλ[ου (?)]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rough fragment of limestone with uneven face, broken on all sides.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 11 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- remains of two lines of Greek letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Haluntium
- Provenance found
- Found in a tomb in Localita Calvario, presumed to be from ancient necropolis
Current location
- Place
- S. Marco d'Alunzio, Italy
- Repository
- Museo della cultura e delle Arti Figurative Bizantine e Normanne
- Autopsy
- Prag 2006-04
- Map
Date
Hellenistic(?) (Unknown – Unknown)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is a reasonable assumption that the text is a simple funerary inscription, containing the name and patronymic of the deceased; it may have been accompanied by one or more formulaic elements such as χαιρε.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 10/19/2021