ISic001635: Epitaph for Agathe
- ID
- ISic001635
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Agnello 1953;
- 3: Rizzone: στιαν (η omitted by error?)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque of limestone, curved around the upper edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text filling a field set within the face of the stone, over five lines, slight vacat at end.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Mutyca
- Provenance found
- Found in Catacomb Treppiedi A, on the floor of a small corrridor by the entrance
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo
- Autopsy
- observed in Ragusa Museum 2015.01.13
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (after Orsi) (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, textual-context
Text type
commentary
The dating formula is unusual, but is attested in the Rabat catacomb in Malta (so Rizzone).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645086
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, Sicilia Bizantina, vol. 1 (Tivoli: Arti grafiche Aldo Chicca, 1942), at 224 no.3
- Antonio Ferrua, «Sicilia Bizantina», Epigraphica 5–6 (1944 1943): 85–100, at 99
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.70
- Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «Iscrizioni giudaica e cristiane di Malta», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 168 (2009): 202–8, at 208 fig.3
- Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «La catacomba A e le iscrizioni di Treppiedi», in La necropoli di Treppiedi a Modica, a c. di G. Di Stefano (Palermo: Sellerio, 2009), 52–58, at 56 no.6
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 4/8/2025