ISic001497: Epitaph for Caius Terentius Symphorus
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bitto 2001
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble slab, with lightly convex suface, broken into three joining pieces (and restored). The upper left corner is missing. Part of a damaged moulding projects along the upper edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26.2 cm, width: 29.8 cm, depth: 1-1.7 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is carefully aligned on the left margin, less evenly along the right, and fills the stone over 5 lines, with a large hedera at the end of the text, lower right.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 33-34mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 5: 11-15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Found in 1914 in exavations by Orsi in the, sep.104
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina
- A3573
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (AD 101 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1945.0062
- Paolo Orsi, «Messana. La necropoli romana di S. Placido e di altre scoperte avvenute nel 1910-1915», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 121–218, at 162-163
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 258 no.13
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 63
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at 11
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/2/2026