ISic004422: Epitaph for Artemidoros (?)
- ID
- ISic004422
- 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 from photograph;
- line.1: Sofia 2018: Ἀρτεμιδ[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Incomplete plinth of the local sandstone belonging to a tomb of the epitymbion type C. A moulding is largely preserved around the base; the upper surface is cut roughly smooth, but does not appear to be the original surface, and the upper/right part of the text across the front face is lost (as is the right corner of the block).
- Object type
- plinth
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18.5 cm, width: 46 cm, depth: 49 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of rather irregular Greek letters, seemingly not precisely centred on the stone, with empty space below; the right hand end of the text is lost to damage.
- 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
- From the area of the necropolis in contrada Cardusa, but without exact provenance
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tripi, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Santi Furnari di Tripi , ME23440
- Autopsy
- Metcalfe 2016 visited museum
- Map
Date
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
commentary
Traces of an omega are visible after the delta, which makes restoration of the extremely common name Ἀρτεμίδωρος almost certain (the name is very common at nearby Tauromenion). The epitaph can be assumed to be in the genitive, after the pattern of the majority of epitaphs in this necropolis.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 116 fig.120
- Girolamo Sofia, «Nuove iscrizioni funerarie dalla necropoli di Abakainon», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 103–12, at 108 no.12 and fig.13
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