ISic001706: I.Sicily inscription 001706

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo I. Gradante, 2022-02-24

ID: ISic001706
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

Text from Orsi 1893, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: The text is on the reverse of
Object type: plaque
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 15 cm, width: 17 cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: Fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Docimian, Parian-1, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype: stone.marble > Docimian,Parian-1,Pentelic

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Catacomb of San Giovanni

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 39
Autopsy: No Autopsy
Map

Date

Late C3 AD - C4 AD (AD 275 - AD 400)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Although the text on the other side has been repeatedly published, this side has been ignored other than by Orsi.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Paolo Orsi, «Siracusa. Esplorazioni nelle catacombe di S. Giovanni ed in quelle della vigna Cassia», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1893, 276–314, at (1893), 299 no. 82

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/5/2025