ISic000788: Epitaph for Cartilia Irene
- ID
- ISic000788
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Bitto 2001
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A slab of marble, missing the upper left corner and upper left margin, but otherwise intact (and the full text is preserved).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29 cm, width: 26,5 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is approximately centered on the stone, with the left and right margins more or less regular except in the final two lines.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 6: 7-10mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations by Griffo in the 1940s in the area of the Necropolis of the Orti della Maddalena
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A3579
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Ferrua suggested early 3rd century CE, Griffo the 1st century CE; a date in the first two centuries CE seems likely (so also Bitto 2001: 71). (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Three other texts from the same necropolis were also set up by Claudius Thesis, two in Greek (ISic003529, ISic003530) and a second in Latin (ISic000787).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 84-85 no.7 fig.25
- « 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 1981.0466
- « 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 1977.0333
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 256 no.9
- 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 22
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Vittorio Bottini
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021