ISic000692: Epitaph for Onomaste
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thin rectangular plaque of white marble, with straight left edge but the other three edges more irregular, and taller on the right side than the left. Broken in half vertically, but the two pieces join. The rear is finished smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 13.5-14 (L to R) cm, width: 22.5 cm, depth: 1.1 cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic fabric (identification based on digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters, approximately centred. Guidelines above and below each line.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Thick v-cut letters, of fairly regular and moderately narrow module, with deep wedge serifs. E shows slight curvature to the bars, A with a sloping cross-bar.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 32-38mm
- Line 2: 31-33mm
- Line 3: 31mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris high certainty
- Provenance found
- From a necropolis of the period C1 BCE - C2 CE excavated in 1956 in contrada Scozzo (immediately outside the main gate on the southern side of the city) by Ferruccio Barreca.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari
- 11 (75361 / 75362)
- Autopsy
- Autopsy by Alex Antoniou, 2022-07-14, Antiquarium room 5, case 6, second shelf.
- Map
Date
later first or second century CE (AD 51 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The name Onomaste/us is well attested in Rome and Campania.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175751
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100260
- 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 1989.0338l
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 165 no.20 fig.20
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 84 no.31 fig.57
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/28/2026