ISic004421: Epitaph for Athanippos
- ID
- ISic004421
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plinth
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text as per Sofia 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Intact stele of the local sandstone belonging to a tomb of the epitymbion type B; the associated tomb monument has not been excavated.
- Object type
- plinth
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 121 cm, width: 29 cm, depth: 12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of Greek letters filling the width of the stele, approximately 20 cm from the top of the stele.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 29mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: NAmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- Unnumbered tomb on the eastern margin of the excavated area of the necropolis (close to tomb 23) 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, 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. The name Ἀθάνιππος is not a common one, with only one other known (probably) Sicilian instance (IG II/III (2nd edn) 10293: Ἕρμων | Ἀθανίππου | Σικελὸς | ἀπὸ Τυνδαρίδος, a funerary inscription from Athens of the imperial period.
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