ISic001535: I.Sicily inscription 001535
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Agnello 1956
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular marble plaque, broken in 2 fragments, lower right corner broken.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- incomplete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Göktepe, Hymettan. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Lunense,Docimian,Göktepe,Hymettan
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on 7 straight lines, with 2 staurograms at the beginning and at the end of the first line. Rubricated letters; interpuncts only in the last line.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Small omicron and omega; K with short branches.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- San Diego cemetery (catacombs of Vigna Cassia)
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
Second half C5 AD - first half C6 AD (staurogram) (AD 451 - AD 550)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645034
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0015
- Paolo Orsi, «Manipulus epigraphicus christianus memoriae aeternae I.B. de Rossi dicatus. Contributi alla Siracusa sotterranea», Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. Memorie 1, fasc. 1 (1923): 113–22, at 117 no. 14
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no. 41
- S.L. Agnello, «Aggiunte e correzioni alle epigrafi paleocristiane di Siracusa», Nuovo Didaskaleion 6 (1956): 52–68, at 65 no. 37
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026