ISic000693: Epitaph for Tullia Symbiosis
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A tablet of yellowish stone with pinkish red veins running through it. The tablet is broken into at least 6 fragments and has been recomposed and mounted on a stand. Intact on all sides, but with a hole upper middle where one fragment is lost. The edges are straight, but the rear is very rough and irregular.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 29.4 cm, depth: max 4.1 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.breccia
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters approximately centred on the stone and reducing in height.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
A moderately deep v-cut, with wide modules in lines 1-2, narrower in line 3. Letters have pronounced but simple wedge serifs, and pronounced curvature on Y and X. The interpuncts in line 3 (only) have the form of hederae.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 50mm
- Line 2: 44-46 (Y=50)mm
- Line 3: 37-45mm
- Line 4: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris high certainty
- Provenance found
- From tomb 25, one of 69 burials in 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. The burial contained votive terracottas, ceramic relief medalions, and glass perfume bottles.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-14, in the Antiquarium, room 5, case 5, third shelf.
- Map
Date
second century CE (AD 101 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
As Fasolo notes, Symbiosis as a personal name (as opposed to the use of the adjective or verb to describe a partner) is extremely rare.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175752
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100261
- 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 1989.0338m
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 165 no.21 fig.21
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 84 no.32 fig.58
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/28/2026