ISic000080: Funerary inscription for an Abbot (?)
- ID
- ISic000080
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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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
- Map
Current location
- Place
- San Cipirello, Italy
- Repository
- depot of the Zurich Ietas excavation , I.14
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Christian (AD 300 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492395
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 45600021
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Hans Peter Isler, «Monte Iato: la ventiquattresima campagna di scavo», Sicilia Archeologica 85–86 (1994): 27–47, at 30-31 fig.13
- Livia Bivona, «Epigrafia Latina», Kokalos 43–44 (1998 1997): 613–24, at 613
- Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «Iscrizioni tardoantiche da Mineo (CT)», Epigraphica 71 (2009): 426–37, at 433 fig.4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 4/28/2021