ISic004379: Funerary epitaph for Diognis
- ID
- ISic004379
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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
- Object 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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Brugnone writes: "La direzione retrograda della scrittura è un indizio dell’arcaicità dell’epigrafe, il ny con l’ultimo tratto un po’ più breve del primo sembra invece più recente se confrontato col tipo ‘a bandiera’ che figura in alcune delle iscrizioni selinuntine più arcaiche. Il gamma è del tipo a semicerchio che, insieme col tipo a semirombo, è in uso a Selinunte, fino alla metà del V secolo a.C., quando comincia ad essere usato il gamma ad angolo retto."
- 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 - 501 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 2018.0518
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Un nuovo epitaffio arcaico con οἴμοι», Aristonothos 13, fasc. 2 (2018): 135–43, https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-4488/10233, at 135 and fig.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Antonietta Brugnone
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021