ISic001726: I.Sicily inscription 001726
- ID
- ISic001726
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from Orsi 1893;
- 4: lapis: ἥρων (Orsi interprets as ἠθῶν - αἰτῶν - ἐτων); Orsi: δέκε = δέκα
- 4-5: Orsi: μένε α
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A pentagonal marble plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb Vigna Cassia
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 12987
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
Late C3 AD - C4 AD (AD 275 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The reading of the last two lines is far from certain. Orsi notes 'si badi ai numerosi idiotismi di cui l'iscrizione e' infarcita.' Orsi proposes reading 10 years and 1 month, whereas Wessel interprets δεχεμ as Latin decem, with ἐνέα for ἐννέα, which seems marginally more plausible (christograms interrupting a word are fairly frequent).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- 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 312 no. 141
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 270 no. 1206
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/6/2023