ISic004416: Epitaph for Philon, son Aunakos

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: ISic004416
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: plinth
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

text based upon photographs;
line.1: Sofia 2018: Φιλ.ν.[.].....

Physical description

Support

Description: Plinth (support for a stele) with mouldings top and bottom, of the local sandstone; the upper moulding is damaged, principally at the corners. The plinth is the right one of a pair mounted on a single base, classified as an epitymbion of type C.
Object type: plinth
Material: sandstone
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 33 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 71 cm

Inscription

Layout

Single line of greek letters approximately centred on the face of the plinth, descending to right

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 59mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm

Provenance

Place of origin: Abacaenum
Provenance found: Tomb 69/70 of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa, where it remains in situ
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Current location

Place: Tripi, Italy
Repository: Necropoli di Abakainon ,
Autopsy: Metcalfe 2016 visited site
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Date

The tomb has not been excavated fully, but the cemetery went out of use around the end of the 3rd century BCE or early 2nd century, offering a terminus ante quem (350 BC – 200 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

The name Φίλων is extremely common; Αυνακος on the other hand is only attested on the other plinth of this tomb, ISic004415. This plinth is one of a pair on a single base - a type attested several times in this necropolis - and the second plinth (ISic004415) is also inscribed and the presence of the name Αυνακος in the genitive as its second element there suggests that the tomb is a double one for siblings. The same situation seems to be attested in the case of ISic004417 / ISic004418. The first name here appears to be in the nominative (which has a parallel in ISic001208), rather than the more commonly found genitive in this necropolis. The lettering of this text is both larger and cruder than on the companion text, and less carefully set out, suggesting a different hand.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

G.M. Bacci e P. Coppolino, La Necropoli di Abakainon: primi dati (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2009), at 28 fig.15 (and ref on p.113)
Girolamo Sofia, «Nuove iscrizioni funerarie dalla necropoli di Abakainon», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 103–12, at 107 no.6 and fig.7

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2021