ISic004379: Funerary epitaph for Diognis

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
ISic004379
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Brugnone 2018

Physical description

Support

Description
A limestone cippus, slightly tapered towards the top, intact but with some minor damage to the right edge
Object type
stele
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 61 cm, width: 24-26 cm, depth: 12-15 cm

Inscription

Layout
A single line of large letters retrograde from top to bottom of the cippus
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Selinus
Provenance found
Recovered by the Trapani provincial authorities prior to 2017; the formula suggests a Selinuntine origin

Current location

Place
Trapani, Italy
Repository
,
Autopsy
None

Date

Mid-6th century BCE (600 BC – 500 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The inscription lacks a known provenance, but the formula of οἴμοι ὀ͂ + vocative is only attested at Selinunte, from where another 12 examples are known (listed in Brugnone 2018 with discussion regarding the hypothesis of C. Sourvinou-Inwood that this may reflect the influence of a western Sicilian indigenous attitude towards the commemoration of the dead and the afterlife)

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021