ISic000855: I.Sicily inscription 000855
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- ID
- ISic000855
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Franz as a small altar, by Kaibel as a cippus; dimensions are recorded in the inventory ('cippo sepolcrale di tufo calcare frammentato')
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text centred on the upper part of the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega; use of interpuncts.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Franz in CIG 3; autopsied by Kaibel in the Siracusa museum and recorded in the inventory of 1885; but not included in Orsi's Taccuini of 1888-1889, and seemingly not observed since.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 20
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Roman imperial period (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Kaibel proposes that the epitaph was originally for Cornelius, and that subsequently his wife(?) Hygeia was added to the burial, hence the space between the two.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492483
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102009
- PHI: 140332
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5407
- 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 38
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/8/2025