ISic000934: Epitaph of Zodoros
- ID
- ISic000934
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi's apograph and photograph. Kaibel's text is the same as that of Carini (in terms of letters), although he claims to have used an apograph of Ioannis Arezzo di Targia, and notes that Mommen also undertook autopsy. ;
- line.5: Carini, Kaibel: ΛΕΥΤΗΣΕ
- 7-10: As noted by Kaibel (and Mommsen), but not by Carini, the letters following the end of line 7 are inserted in sequence at the end of line 2 and the beginnings of lines 3 and 4, with a paragraphos line presumably intended to mark this fact to the left of line 2.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment of grey marble, broken on all sides, but with the text applied after such cutting of the stone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text maintains a regular left margin, ignoring the irregularity of the form of the stone, and filling the space to the right; however, the cutter ran out of space at the end of the stone, and inserted the remaining letters of the word Δεκεμβρίῳ and the concluding staurogram, firstly at the end of line 2 (letter β) and then, under a 'paragraphos' line to the left of the main text of line 2, level with lines 3 (letters ριω) and 4 (staurogram)
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- From the , possibly from the explorations of c.1874 by Cavallari.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 68
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th - 6th century CE (AD 301 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Feissel, in addition to confirming the observation of previous editors that Zodoros should be understood as a variant of Diodoros, identifies the toponym of Makre Kome with the village of Sarepta in Phoenicia, which appears also in the mosaic map of Madaba, noting that the presence of individuals from the eastern Mediterranean in Syracuse is hardly surprising or unparalleled.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492564
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102091
- PHI: 140415
- Printed editions
- I. Carini, «Rassegna archeologica», Archivio Storico Siciliano 3, fasc. 1 (1875): 121–25, at no.11
- 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 14.0117
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.1279.E.2
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0859
- Denis Feissel, « Remarques de toponymie syrienne d’après des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes trouvées hors de Syrie », Syria 59, no 3‑4 (1982): 319‑43, https://doi.org/10.3406/syria.1982.6775, at 340-341
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 99
- 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. 2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/20/2021