ISic001885: Funerary inscription for a young woman
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy/photograph;
- 5: Alternatively: [m]ater; the serif of the foot of the initial A is just visible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque broken on the left and above, intact below and right.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 24.5 cm, width: 19 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- A grainy white marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over five lines, seemingly centred
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neatly carved, regular v-cut letters, of a medium wwidth module and with pronounced wedge serifs.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium high certainty
- Provenance found
- From excavation in the Villa San Pancrazio (area 8000, US 8080), Taormina
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- ME33871
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (AD 101 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The first, fourth and fifth lines indicate that only 2-3 letters are missing on the left side, suggesting a pair of names such as Quinta Flavia (but many other names such as Amynta, Inventa, Leonta, etc. are also possible).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2026