ISic000978: I.Sicily inscription 000978
- ID
- ISic000978
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph (staurogram omitted in published editions)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 10 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb of Santa Maria di Gesù
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 294
- Autopsy
- 2018.01.19 (Manenti)
- Map
Date
5th century CE (AD 401 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Oursanos may be the name Ursianus. The military unit 'Lanciarii Augustenses' is attested among the units serving under military magistrates for Illyricum in the Notitia Dignitatum, in partibus Orientis IX.36 (ed. Seeck p.29). If that list pertains to the beginning of the fifth century, that suggests the approximate period for an attestation of such a unit. Manganaro contextualises the inscription (with text of IG) in relation to others pertaining to military figures in the C4-6 AD in eastern Sicily.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492604
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102131
- PHI: 140455
- Printed editions
- I. Carini, «Rassegna archeologica», Archivio Storico Siciliano 3, fasc. 1 (1875): 121–25, at no.3
- 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 14.0157
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0614
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Greco nei pagi e latino nelle città della Sicilia romana tra I e VI sec. d.C.», in l’epigrafia del villaggio, a c. di A. Calbi, A. Donati, e G. Poma (Faenza, 1993), 543–94, at 580
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
- 1/19/2021