ISic002136: Funerary epitaph for Agathopous

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ID: ISic002136
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;
2: It is clear that the text in line 2 is complete, and the name carries over from line 1 to 2, for the more common form Ἀγαθόπους; this further implies that the damage on the right is ancient, preceding inscription.
5: The traces are clearly compatible with some version of ἔζησεν ἔτη

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 right 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 at least 5 lines in an incised frame
Text condition: partly_illegible
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Regular plain letters, lunate sigma and epsilon
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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