IGII2 10292 Funerary trapeza of Xenon of Neaiton

Funerary trapeza of Xenon of Neaiton

IG II² 10292 Date: 1st century AD

Xenon son of Nemenios a Sicilian from Neaiton.^[1]

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IG II² 10292 (Translated text) (PHI)

Translation by: Payton Wagner

Monument type: Table

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Dipylou Street, northeast of the Kerameikos (Athens Ephoria ΚΤΛ)

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[1] This is a trapeza (or mensa), a large rectangular table-like monument found at Athens from the 4^thcent. BC onwards. It commemorates the son of a Sicilian called Nemenios, whose name is unique at Athens but common on his home island. The city of Neaiton (or Neeton) was near modern Noto in southeastern Sicily. The ethnic used here, Sikelos, was originally reserved for the Sicels, the indigenous inhabitants of eastern Sicily, while Sikeliotes was used for inhabitants of the Greek communities in Sicily. The two terms merged in the Hellenistic period. The appearance of an island and polis ethnic for Sicilians is common abroad after the Classical period, see AIUK 4.6 (BM, funerary), no. 38 and J. Prag in P. Martzavou and N. Papazarkadas, Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis (2013), 37-53. This inscription was excavated along with a group of funerary monuments northeast of the Kerameikos site (see IG II² 5889 with notes).

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