ISic004384: Painted funerary naiskos
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Apparatus criticus
- Edition of Arena
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Remains of the principal element of a limestone funerary aedicola, consisting of a rectangular cippus, heavily damaged to the lower right, and with less damage to the top, which would originally have sat on top of a pyramidal base to form a tomb monument of the eptymbion type. The Aedicula block has a painted slab of Syracusan stone inserted in the recessed central panel (25 x 29 cm). A painted inscription is preserved along the upper cornice of the block, in a field of c.40cm width by 4 cm high, partially obscured at the left end.
- Object type
- aedicula
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 30 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of painted letters in a dark pigment on a stucco surface, delinated by an incised horizontal line above.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Technique
- Painted
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Well-formed letters, showing a slight curvature to the straight strokes. Beta formed of two equal sized, closed loops; epsilon has shorter middle bar; kappa has arms that are not full length; omicron is smaller and mid-line; upsilon has curving upper strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 27mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations of August 1984, designated tomb 4bis, in reuse of a later 'tomba a cassa', nr. 21, in isola 73 (via C. Battisti, Messina)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- No data
- Autopsy
- in store
Date
Arena argues for a date in the final decades of the third, or first decades of the second century BCE, based upon letter forms and general context of Mamertine Messana. An archaeological terminus ante quem will be provided by tomb 21 when published. (225 BC - AD 175)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Rocco Burgio, «Frammenti di architettura lapidea dall necropoli meridionale», in Da Zancle a Messina 2016. Nuovi dati di archeologia urbana, a c. di Gabriella Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2017), 85–104, at 86 fig. 4 and 103 n. 10
- Emiliano Arena, «Epigrafe funeraria ellenistica inedita dalla necropoli meridionale di Messina», Epigraphica 83, fasc. 1–2 (2021): 573–84.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/15/2022