ISic000463: Epitaph of a goatmeat seller
- ID
- ISic000463
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Schubring: IORIAMA+; Mommsen: IORIAMAL
- 2: Vertical stroke at start of line, but impossible to know if letter or decoration.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of a substantial slab of local off-white limestone. Broken top, right and below; cut away (subsequent to the original carving) on the left. Roughly finished on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 43.5 cm, width: 37 cm, depth: 9.5-10.5 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- Two, possibly three lines of large letters with a decorative motif of a branch/vine with berries filling the equivalent of a line-space in between; guidelines above and below each line. A vacat of up to 14.5 cm below the last visible line of text.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Very well cut, tall, v-cut letters. A with a broken bar, M with vertical outers, short inner bars, N with short diagonal, O slightly ovoid.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 50-60mm
- Line 3: 65-68mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae low certainty
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Schubring in 1865 in the Siracusa museum, specific provenance not recorded. Transcribed by Orsi in 1889, on display in the old scala epigraphica (vetr. 37), and now in magazzino B.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 279
- Autopsy
- Prag 2016-06-27
- Map
Date
Roman (AD 101 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Transcribed by Schubring in materials sent to the Berlin academy in October 1865 (his no.219; now in the CIL archives), but no details of provenance are recorded. Ferrua proposed reading 'caprinarius' in the final line, accepted by both Rizzo and Chioffi.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491691
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900526
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 7185
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.361
- F.P. Rizzo, La menzione del lavoro nelle epigrafi della Sicilia antica: per una storia della mentalità , Seia 6 (Palermo, 1989), at 100 no.96
- Chioffi (1999) at 88 no.114
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/24/2026