ISic001536: I.Sicily inscription 001536
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from Ferrua, checked against photograph.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Quadrangular marble plaque with irregular borders.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on 6 straight lines with staurogram at the end of the fifth line; rubricated letters.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Line 1, first A with broken crossbar.
- 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
- 40547
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
Second half C5 - first half C6 AD (staurogram) (AD 451 - AD 550)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645035
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 331416
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.1279.E.1
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0859
- C. Barreca, Le catacombe di Siracusa alla luce degli ultimi scavi e recenti scoperte, 2nd ed. (Rome: Scuola salesiana del libro, 1934), at no. 407
- Antonio Ferrua, «Florilegio d’iscrizioni paleocristiane di Sicilia», Rendiconti della pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 22 (1947 1946): 227–39, at 236 no. 40
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no. 42
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/18/2025