ISic001581: Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription
- ID
- ISic001581
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ferrua;
- 2: Manni Piraino: δοῦλ.ς Ἰ(η)σ(οῦ)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, broken on the right, intact on the other three sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters, starting consistently against the left margin of the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 20-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- No information on discovery is recorded, unpublished until catalogued by Manni Piraino in 1973.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8724
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (IGPalermo) (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Ferrua rejects Manni Piraino's reading of line 2, noting that ΙΣ must be resolved in the nominative and that this most likely followed by an abbreviation (probably employing a christogram) for Christos. The missing month in line 3 must be either April or August.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 117
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.487
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 225 G8 fig.9
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/30/2024