ISic001374: Fragment of a funerary inscription

ID: ISic001374
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: unknown
Status: draft
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Edition

Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989) Zotero

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Apparatus criticus

Text of Ferrua following the transcription of Amico, but supplying extensive restorations;
6: Amico prints: ΜΟΙΡΕΠΩΝ

Physical description

Support

Description: Described by Amico as 'in semipalmari ex albo marmore saxo diffracto', in other words a c.12cm fragment of white marble, intact on the right, broken on the left (but whether a plaque or something else is not certain.
Object type: unknown
Material: marble
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 12 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Amico records lunate sigma and uncial omega, but quadrate epsilon (but epsilon appears always to be printed quadrate in this work).
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Catina
Provenance found: First recorded by Amico, in the S. Nicolai museum, not seen subsequently by Kaibel

Current location

Lost.

Date

Later Roman (AD 201 - AD 500)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

3/7/2025