ISic001272: Monument with cornice bearing the name Chrysis
- ID
- ISic001272
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
Text based upon photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque with cornice above in a coarse stone, somewhat eroded and damaged around the edges and the surface. The epigraphic field below the cornice is 13.5 cm high. Five recessed rectangular panels occupy the flat surface below the cornice, the first from the left incised with a hatched lozenge pattern, the second bearing a large Christian monogram, the third and fifth an incised palm leaf decoration, the fourth a Greek text over a single line.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 5.5 (plaque) - 8 (cornice) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text in the fourth panel runs from bottom to top and appears to be written retrograde.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 10-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found 'vicino lo Stagnone' in June 1773, from the area upslope of the Naumachia.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8714
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later 4th century CE (IG Palermo) (AD 350 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491455
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101641
- PHI: 140761
- PHI: 175716
- Printed editions
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.XVII no.26
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9515
- 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 14.0447
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 117
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 116
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.486
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 1934
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 224 G7 fig.8
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/30/2024