ISic000657: I.Sicily inscription 000657

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Manganaro including restorations, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description

Fragment of marble plaque , seemingly broken on all sides, but with the text apparently intact above, below, and to the left.

Object type

plaque

Material

marble

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: 16 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: 3 cm

Inscription

Layout

Line 1 is centred, with lines 2-4 having a fixed left margin.

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Line 1: 20-25mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Catina

Provenance found

'recuperata nell'agro interno catanese' (Manganaro 1993), with no indication of current whereabouts.

Current location

Place

Catania, Italy

Repository

Autopsy

None

Date

Evidence

textual-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

Manganaro notes that the name is rare, presumably that of a slave, and finds parallels in Egypt.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 491377
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 3700330
• PHI: -

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 1993.0830
• 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 547, 544 fig. 1

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

2/15/2022