ISic004414: Epitaph for Eupolemos
- ID
- ISic004414
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text of Sofia 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Stele of the local stone, damaged below, forming part of an eptymbion ('type B')
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 51.5 cm, width: 30.5 cm, depth: 14.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Single line of Greek letters filling the width of the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- Tomb 32 of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tripi, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Santi Furnari di Tripi , ME23438
- Autopsy
- Metcalfe 2016 visited museum
- Map
Date
The goods recovered from the tomb suggest a date in the 3rd century BCE (300 BC â 200 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The name Eupolemos is a common one, with at last seven other attestations on the island, all from eastern Sicily.
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 41 fig.23
- Giovanna Maria Bacci et al., Tripi. Il museo archeologico «Santi Furnari». Guida allâesposizione (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2015), at 161 and fig.83
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 115 fig.119
- Girolamo Sofia, «Nuove iscrizioni funerarie dalla necropoli di Abakainon», Zeitschrift fĂŒr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 103â12, at 107 no.4 and fig.5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021