ISic001269: Funerary inscription for Agathon
- ID
- ISic001269
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG 14.0444
- 7: Ferrua 1982 and 1989: corrects Γ to Ε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, intact on all sides, smooth on the rear.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble ('bardiglio')
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 21.5 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-9: 18-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found c.1856 on the funerary road below the theatre.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico , 35
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
409 CE, 13 Oct. (AD 409 – AD 409)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
Ferrua notes that the date must be corrected, if it is to align with the consulship year of 409. Note the day recorded as day of the moon; and note the combined use of Greek and Latin abbreviations for Augustus, the latter in Greek letters.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492876
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101638
- PHI: 140758
- PHI: 331433
- 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 14.0444
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 114
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0887
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 12 no.35
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.483
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 222 G6 fig.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
- Maria Barbieri
- system
- Last revision
- 7/29/2024