ISic004377: Epitaph for Likinis Isauros
- ID
- ISic004377
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Zavettieri 2017
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A square slab of stone, intact, unfinished on the reverse. A six-petalled flower (or star) has been carved out in each corner of the front face, and a similar-sized circular hole in the middle of the top and bottom of the front face; it is likely that these were all inlaid with coloured stone (the lower middle disc is preserved).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 30 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of simply incised Greek letters engraved between guidelines. The letters become steadily smaller and more compressed
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Simple lunate letters: epsilon has an extended middle bar, upsilon is variable either almost a V or with very curved upper arms
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 32mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Excavated in the southern necropolis, re-used in tomb t.18 of Isolato 83, III Comparto, via degli Orti
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- , ME 22797
- Autopsy
- in store
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021