ISic001763: I.Sicily inscription 001763

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Wessel, supplemented by transcription of Orsi

Physical description

Support

Description

Large marble plaque, missing the upper left corner and the lower margin.

Object type

plaque

Material

marble

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 24 cm, width: 33 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 of San Giovanni

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 13052

Autopsy

none

Map

Date

Evidence

internal-date

Text type

funerary

commentary

As Ferrua observes, the unusual form of the consular dating for the daughter's death suggests that the notice of the new consuls for 403 CE had not yet reached Syracusae when the epitaph was engraved.

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 284 no.22
• V. Strazzulla, Museum epigraphicum: seu inscriptionum Christianarum quae in Syracusanis catacumbis repertae sunt corpusculum, Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia : 3. ser. 3 (Palermo: Lo Statuto, 1897), at 138 no. 166
• Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 9 no. 21, 11 no. 29
• C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 183 no. 778

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

2/6/2024