ISic000919: Funerary inscription for Eirene and Theodoulos
- ID
- ISic000919
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG;
- 4: Both christograms are inside circles.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small plaque of 'bardiglio'
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 14 cm, depth: 2.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- hederae at the four corners, and two christograms to the right of the final line in a circle, with a cross between them and below.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- No details of the original discovery, but reported by Crispi in 1823 as part of material of sig. D. Agostino Gallo, from Taormina, wrongly attributed to Siracusa by Kaibel (and the inventory is agnostic)
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 56
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later Roman (AD 300 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Muscolino discusses the likely attribution of this and a number of other pieces, the earliest records of which state that it came from Taormina, but also indicate that the stones were moved to Siracusa early, leading to general attribution to Siracusa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492549
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102076
- PHI: 140400
- Printed editions
- Giuseppe Crispi, «Iscrizioni sepolcrali greche appartenenti all’epoca cristiana, interpetrate ed illustrate», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 4 (1823): 259–73, at 263 no.2
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9468
- 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 14.0102
- 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. 51
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 115
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no. 475
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 201 no.844
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 232 G19
- 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. 2, p. 7
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/30/2024