ISic001494: I.Sicily inscription 001494

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001494
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Ferrua

Physical description

Support

Description
Part of a marble stele (or plaque), intact on left and right, but broken above and below (although as Ferrua notes, probably not much is lost below, one line at most). Mouldings are preserved on left and right. Bitto suggests that the stone is an architectural piece in reuse already in antiquity for the inscription, but this is based upon the poor fitting of the text to the borders alone, which is not a sufficient argument.
Object type
stele
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 20 cmwidth: 28 cmdepth: 10 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of five lines of text, poorly fitted to the width of the stone, overlapping the right border repeatedly.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 2-4: 40mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Messana
Provenance found
Chiesa della Cattolica, Messina

Current location

Place
Messina, Italy
Repository
Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A3565
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

First half of 4th century CE (Ferrua) (AD 301 – AD 350)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

Note the use of interpuncts, sometimes marking syllables, sometimes wordbreaks in abbreviations.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/15/2022