ISic000397: I.Sicily inscription 000397
- ID
- ISic000397
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro, controlled against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque of marble (Orsi describes as Parian marble, but Manganaro highly sceptical), convex on the front, concave at the rear, and recut in antiquity from a larger piece.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 80 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three even and equal lines of text, carefully set out, with vacats above and below.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Orsi records that it was found in an unspecified location in the vicinity of Acireale, which Manganaro suggests to indicate ancient Acium/Akis, located in the vicinity of Capo Mulini south of Acrieale. However, the piece was already recorded by Ferrara in 1829, as being in the collection of barone Recupero, having been found some years before during the construction of the 'chiesa dei minoriti', in Catania.
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Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Galleria regionale di Palazzo Bellomo ,
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Orsi attributed it to the Norman period, Ferrua (1989) suggested the Saracen period due to the name Taric, and Manganaro suggests Gothic, each lowering the date therefore, which seems to belong in late antiquity, perhaps later 6th century CE, or earlier 7th century CE, dated by indiction (14th). (AD 550 – AD 650)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491608
- EDR: 141215
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900438
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 376 no.4, 378
- 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, at 495-496 ph
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7116
- Ernst Johann L. Diehl, Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, 4 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1925), at 3120
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 28 no. 99
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no. 452
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Greco nei pagi e latino nelle città della Sicilia romana tra I e VI sec. d.C.», in l’epigrafia del villaggio, a c. di A. Calbi, A. Donati, e G. Poma (Faenza, 1993), 543–94, at 583 fig. 18
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
- 1/20/2022