ISic004420: Epitaph for Aristokrates
- ID
- ISic004420
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plinth
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- text as per Sofia 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Plinth (support for a stele) with moulding around the top and bottom. The upper moulding of the plinth is partly lost, but the inscribed face is almost completely intact (although lightly scored across the surface). 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: 31 cm, width: 51.5 cm, depth: 52.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Greek letters rather irregularly laid out (not strictly observing the horizontal) and not strictly centred; the single word is split across two lines
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 49mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
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 epitaph consists of a single name in the genitive, as with the majority of the epitaphs attested from this necropolis. This epitaph is one of a pair, the second (ISic004419) commemorating Aristarchos. The evidence of ISic004415/ISic004416 and of ISic004417/ISic004418 suggests that the two individuals were related (bothers?). The name Ἀριστοκράτεος is widely attested, including c.11 attestations in Sicily (all from the eastern half of the island; to the 10 currently in LGPN, add ISic003387 from Syracusae). Both this epitaph and its partner are notable for the relatively crude layout and formation of the letters (in this case, the letters are significantly larger than in ISic004419, with the result that the name does not fit on a single line).
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