ISic002135: Funerary epitaph for Besson

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ID: ISic002135
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: aedicula

Edition

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 Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text after Orsi 1912 and a low resolution photograph; fresh study is required;
1: In the inventory, the first line is marked as illegible, and only part of what Orsi claims to read in NSA is visible in the photograph, so the name cannot be considered certain

Physical description

Support

Description: The damaged upper portion of a limestone naiskos (pediment or moulding above, recessed panel below), bearing two texts in incised panels on the face below the moulding, of which this is the left hand text; the other, on the same stone, is . The surface is partially damaged.
Object type: aedicula
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: 73 cm, width: 50 cm, depth: 35 cm

Material

Description: limestone
Type > subtype: stone.limestone > unverified

Inscription

Layout: Text over 6 lines in an incised frame
Text condition: partly_illegible
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Regular plain letters, lunate sigma and epsilon, cursive mu.
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Found in February 1911 during work in the 'basilica suburbana' of San Giovanni, and found as material in re-use in a wall of the 1600s.

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 32089
Autopsy: None, but recently relocated in a store in the archaeological park.
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