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 (CE 101 - CE 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
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), 62
- Orsi (1916) at 162-163
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 258 no.13
- Manganaro (1988) at 63
- IMusMessina Bitto (2001) at 11
- Margherita Cassia, «L’esercizio della medicina nella Sicilia repubblicana ed imperiale», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 12–15 (2012 2009): 156–86, at 167 no.16
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/2/2026