ISic000633: I.Sicily inscription 000633
- ID
- ISic000633
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Bitto controlled against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque broken into four joining fragments, with the lower left quarter and centre now lost.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- six lines of Greek, carefully laid out along guielines.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate letters, with extensive use of ligature and occasional small letters mid-line.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 20-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, described by Kaibel as 'in museo'.
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina ,
- Autopsy
- Noted in the storeroom of Messina Museum, 2017.
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (AD 101 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1994.0756
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1967.0700
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 419
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 420
- R. Cagnat, J. Toutain, and P. Jouguet, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, 4 vols (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906), at 486
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0835
- G. Agnello, «Ancora sull’iscrizione messinese di Ulpio Niceforo», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 2 (1963): 79–83.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 205-206
- L. Robert, « Le serpent Glycon d’Abônouteichos à Athènes et Artémis d’Éphèse à Rome », Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1981, 513‑35, at 526-528
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 294
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Culti privati nella Sicilia romana», in L’Afrique, La Gaule, la religion a l’epoque romaine. Melanges a la memoire de Marcel Le Glay, a c. di Y. Le Bohec, Coll. Latomus 226 (Brussels, 1994), 831–40, at 834
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at 34
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/15/2022