ISic001777: I.Sicily inscription 001777

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001777
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Orsi 1893;
3: Orsi records trace of a vertical

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of a marble plaque
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 8 cm, width: 12 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: incomplete
Letter heights: Line 1-3: 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 , 13066
Autopsy: none
Map

Date

Late C3 AD - C4 AD (AD 275 – AD 400)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The fragment appears intact above and to the left, from Orsi's drawing; what appears to be the trace of the left handle of a tabula ansata is depicted below the preserved letters.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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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 292 no. 58a

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

8/9/2023