ISic001399: I.Sicily inscription 001399

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2014-09-10
ID
ISic001399
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • text from autopsy;
  • 3: Ansaldi: ΚΑΙΡΕ
  • 4: Ansaldi: ΕΖΕΣΑΣ
  • 3: Ansaldi: ΕΤΕ

Physical description

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Description
A grey marble plaque, intact on the upper and right sides, seemingly damaged on the left and lower sides, although the text appears complete, and the stone tapers to the lower edge (the layout may imply that a balancing hedera is missing upper left, but the clear lack of such on line 3 is probably against this). The rear is rough and uneven, with traces of mortar.
Object type
plaque
Material
stone (grey crystalline)
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 20.8 cmwidth: 25.4 cmdepth: 2.9 (maximum) cm

Inscription

Layout
Five lines, approximately centred on the stone, except for line 5 which is aligned to the left margin.
Text condition
complete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-4: 23-26 (omega 22, phi 36)mm
Line 5: 18-20mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Centuripae
Provenance found
Found in January 1842 between 'la valle della Difesa' and 'le terre nominate di Clerici'; acquired by Giuseppe Polizzi, where seen by a traveller in 1844, and subsequently by Ansalsdi. Kaibel could not locate it. It was purchased by Orsi for the Siracusa museum in 1914. Currently in storage in magazzino B, cassetta 4.

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 35827
Autopsy
Prag 2014-09-10
Map

Date

1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/7/2025