ISic000844: Epitaph of Epaphroditos
- ID
- ISic000844
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ferrua ;
- 5: Kaibel: μ(ῆνας)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A square plaque of white marble, irregular edges.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines, with left and right justification, vacat below.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate epsilon and sigma, mu tending to cursive.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found by Capodieci in Vigna San Giuliano in 1782; currently in storage in magazzino B, catacomb cass. 74
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 14
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Fourth or fifth century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492472
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101998
- PHI: 140321
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 27
- V. Strazzulla, Museum epigraphicum: seu inscriptionum Christianarum quae in Syracusanis catacumbis repertae sunt corpusculum, Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia : 3. ser. 3 (Palermo: Lo Statuto, 1897), at no. 123
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 188 §55 fig. 22
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p. 102
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/14/2025