ISic001556: Epitaph of Iason and Theudora
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular grey marble plaque, of which the edges are all rough, although the text is complete.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 19.5 cm, width: 34 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- sixlines of approximately equal height, centred on the stone; in lines 3 and 6 the final letter of the preceding line is carried over for the purposes of symmetry.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Elegantly carved rounded v-cut letters, with curving extensions to alpha; lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega; cursive mu.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- According to Manni Piraino, an incomplete record in the museum only indicates that it was found in a private house in Marsala
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 8722
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
First half of 3rd century CE (Manni Piraino) (AD 201 - AD 250)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The stone is distinctive for the effort put into making the descriptions of age on lines 3 and 6 symmetrical, by using the final sigma of the preceding word on the line above to balance the numeral in each case. The name Jason is a common Hebrew one.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1976.0058
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1077
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 26
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/25/2026