ISic002134: Funerary marker for Philoxenos
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1912, 1915 and inventory;
- 1: Orsi 1912: ΧΡΗΤ (sic); corrected in inventory and 1915
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small limestone column, with a projecting moulding around the top; broken in two across the upper part of the shaft; text incised on the face.
- Object type
- column
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 69 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text in two lines across the face
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Described as roughly engraved, but with no clear indication of the letter forms (although open sigma is implied)
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in the autumn of 1911, 'nel fondo denominato Merica, al bivio delle rotabili Belvedere-Floridia'
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 32643
- Autopsy
- None, and not yet located in the museum
- Map
Date
Hellenistic (300 BC - AD 1)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text was inadvertently published twice by Orsi in the NSA; the sigma is inserted subsequently in the transcription in the inventory, and clearly was omitted in the first transcription and the initial publication. The stone has not yet been located in the museum.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1912), 299
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1915), 203
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/9/2026