ISic004419: Epitaph for Aristarchos
- ID
- ISic004419
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plinth
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- text based upon photographs;
- line.1: Sofia 2018: [Ἀ]...ταρχ..
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Plinth (support for a stele) with moulding around the base. The plinth is heavily damaged and all the upper portion is lost and much of the lower moulding on the sides also; the lower part of the inscribed face is preserved, marked by a number of deep striations in the surface. The plinth is the left 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: 18.5 cm, width: 51.5 cm, depth: 52.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of a single line of Greek letters, somewhat irregularly laid out and not following the horizontal
- 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 105 of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa, where it remains in situ
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tripi, Italy
- Repository
- Necropoli di Abakainon ,
- Autopsy
- Metcalfe 2016 visited site
- Map
Date
The tomb has not been excavated fully, but the cemetery went out of use around the end of the 3rd century BCE, offering a terminus ante quem (350 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The majority of the epitaphs attested from this necropolis display a single name in the genitive. However, given the fragmentary state of this stone, it cannot be ruled out that this is the patronymic of the deceased, with a first name on the now lost upper portion of the stone. Against this, the second plinth from this funerary monument (ISic004420) clearly contains only a single name in the genitive, and it is therefore more likely that only the single name was also recorded here. The evidence of ISic004415/ISic004416 and of ISic004417/ISic004418 suggests that the two individuals commemorated by this stone and its pair ISic004420 were related (bothers?). The name Ἀρίσταρχος is widely attested, including c.11 attestations in Sicily (all from the eastern half of the island).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
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