ISic001651: I.Sicily inscription 001651
- ID
- ISic001651
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text and translation of Rizzone 2009
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A limestone plaque, broken into three pieces and recomposed.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 44 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- seven lines filling the available face of the stone
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
quadrate eipsilon, mixture of quadrate and curved lunate sigma. Mu tending to cursive.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-7: 20mm
- 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
- 2015-01-13 on display in Ragusa Museum
- Map
Date
Either 396 or 402 CE (so Ferrua, on the consular date) (AD 396 - AD 402)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645089
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0852
- Paolo Orsi, «Italia meridionale e insulare», in Atti del III Congresso internazionale di archeologia cristiana, Ravenna, 25-30 settembre 1932 (Rome: Pontificio istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1934), 129–54, at 143-151 no.1 fig.20
- Paolo Orsi, Sicilia Bizantina, vol. 1 (Tivoli: Arti grafiche Aldo Chicca, 1942), at 222-223
- Antonio Ferrua, «Sicilia Bizantina», Epigraphica 5–6 (1944 1943): 85–100, at 98
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.93
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 8 no.18 = 11 no.28
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 34 n.156
- 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 52-54 no.1 fig.11
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- Arianna Cinquatti
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021