ISic000080: Funerary inscription for an Abbot (?)

Photo courtesy Zurich Ietas excavations
ID
ISic000080
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Rizzone 2009, with minor modification line 4 (after photo);
  • line.1: Isler: CII;
  • line.2: Isler: [Pa]ulus(?); Isler, Bivona: D(omin)i
  • line.4: Isler: [---].I[---]; Rizzone [qui vixit an(nos)] pl(us) m(inus)[---]

Physical description

Support

Description
Two joining fragments of a marble slab broken on all sides, and re-used on the less smooth reverse side for a Latin inscription; the upper right corner may be preserved
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 30.5 cm, width: cm, depth: 2.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of parts of four lines of Latin text, probably the upper right section of the text, with vacat in the upper right
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Lines 1-4: 40mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Ietas
Provenance found
Found in the area of mediaeval houses built over the south-east corner of the agora
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Current location

Place
San Cipirello, Italy
Repository
depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation , I.14
Autopsy
None
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Date

Christian (AD 300 – AD 600)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Rizzone 2009 reconstructs this as a rare record (for Sicily) of a member of a monastic order, in the context of discussing a funerary inscription from Mineo (ISic003454) which appears to record a monk.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
4/28/2021