ISic001265: Funerary inscription for Phabia Eignatiane
- ID
- ISic001265
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small square limestone plaque, lightly damaged on the upper and right edges. The rear is only roughly finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.5 cm, width: 14.5 cm, depth: 2-3.5 (thickest in the centre) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek letters filling the stone from the top
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Stevenson as coming from near the church of San Pancrazio
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico , 32
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
(?) (Unknown – Unknown)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Ferrua expressed doubts regarding the stone's authenticity. The style of letter-cutting is inconsistent and unusual.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492872
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101634
- PHI: 140754
- Printed editions
- 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 14.0440
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 113
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 172-174 no.35 fig. 12
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 227 G11 fig. 11
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/23/2021