ISic004413: Epitaph for Kallo

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
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
ISic004413
Status
edited
Language
Ancient Greek
Object type
stele
Text type
funerary

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • text of Sofia 2018

Physical description

Support

Description
Two joining fragments of a stele of the local stone, forming part of an eptymbion ('type B')
Object type
stele
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 120 cm, width: 29.5 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

Broad simple letters: kappa has short, approximately equal arms; alpha is broad with broken bar; omicron is small and mid-line; sigma has horizontal top and bottom strokes.

Letter heights
Line 1: 30mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Abacaenum
Provenance found
Tomb 27 of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa
Map

Current location

Place
Tripi, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Santi Furnari di Tripi
ME23436
Autopsy
Metcalfe 2016 visited museum
Map

Date

The goods recovered from the tomb suggest a date in the 3rd century BCE (300 BCE - 201 BCE)
Evidence
archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

The name Καλλώ is not attested in Sicily, but is reasonably widespread, including western Greece.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

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