ISic000690: Epitaph for Ionia Iulia
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A tall narrow stele of coarse 'sandstone', rectangular in form with a triangular pediment c.10 cm high.
- Object type
- stele
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 122 cm, width: 37 cm, depth: 15 cm
Material
- Description
- sandstone
- Type > subtype
- stone.sandstone
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is set out over a single line across the width of the stele, some 25cm below the pediment.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Plain letters of a fairly square module; triangular interpunct.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 42-52mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris high certainty
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations by T. Sidoti in Contrada Scozia (or Scrozzo), in front of the 'porta a tenaglia', in the area of a necropolis
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Area archeologica di Tindari
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-14, in the depositi at the archaeological site (but with limited accessibility).
- Map
Date
Probably first century CE. (21 BC - AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The form of a stele with triangular pediment is unusual for Sicily (previous editions unhelpfully describe the stone simply as a 'lastra'). The lettering and the use of the name Iulia suggest an earlier rather than later date in the imperial period; the use of Latin and the name Iulia encourage a date after the foundation of the colonia in 21 BCE. The necropolis was in use from the C1 BCE to the C2 CE.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493941
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 32701131
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/28/2026