ISic004378: Epitaph for Daphne Lykeia
- ID
- ISic004378
- 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 plaque of grey marble, intact on all sides; the lower left corner is broken but reattached. Roughly finished on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 16.8 cm, width: 21.5 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters, neatly centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Somewhat elegant lunate letters: delta, alpha, lambda all have elongated upper strokes; alpha with downard left sloping cross-bar; zeta tall, curved and elegant; upsilon has curved upper arms.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Excavated (between 1990 and 2012) in the southern necropolis, sporadic find in Isolato 83, III Comparto, via degli Orti
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , ME 22798
- Autopsy
- in store
- Map
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