ISic004411: Epitaph for Kratisstos
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Apparatus criticus
- text of Sofia 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three joining fragments of a stele of the local sandstone, forming part of a eptymbion ('type B')
- Object type
- stele
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 82 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 15.5 cm
Material
- Description
- sandstone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Single line of Greek letters filling the width of the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Plain wide letters: kappa has arms of almost full length, not quite joining the vertical; rho is closed; alpha broad with straight bar; sigma has horizontal top and bottom bars, joined by a curving stroke rather than two distinct diagonals; omega sits very slightly above the line, is circular and open with short arms
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- Tomb 18/42 of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tripi, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Santi Furnari di Tripi
- ME23435
- Autopsy
- Metcalfe 2016 visited museum
- Map
Date
Dated to the end of the 4th century BCE by the burial goods (325 BC - 301 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The standard from of the name Κράτιστος and the feminine form Κρατιστώ are attested principally in Athens, Taras and Olynthos, but also elsewhere - not however in Sicily. The open form of omega is potentially compatible with a late C4 date, but the form of the sigma is not readily paralleled so early.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G.M. Bacci e P. Coppolino, La Necropoli di Abakainon: primi dati (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2009), at 27 fig.14
- Giovanna Maria Bacci et al., Tripi. Il museo archeologico «Santi Furnari». Guida all’esposizione (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2015), at 159 and fig.81
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 113 fig.115
- Girolamo Sofia, «Nuove iscrizioni funerarie dalla necropoli di Abakainon», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 103–12, at 107 no.1 and fig.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021