ISic000986: Funerary inscription of Auxanon
- ID
- ISic000986
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text as per Crispi, Kaibel in IG, Orsi (Kaibel omits the second hedera in line 1)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble tablet in two joining pieces.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.5 cm, width: 18.5 cm, depth: 1.7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 17mm
- 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 , 37
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Early Christian, late Roman (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
One of several inscriptions described by Crispi as coming from Taormina but commonly attributed to Siracusa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492613
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102140
- PHI: 140464
- 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 264 no.5
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9466
- 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 14.0166
- 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. 107
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 116
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 49 no.188
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 234 G22
- 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.9
- Discussion
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