ISic001887: Fragment of a Greek inscription
- ID
- ISic001887
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary(?)
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick white marble plaque, broken on all sides, roughly finished on the reverse
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.1 cm, width: 11.2 cm, depth: 4.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of a single line of Greek letters, with a sizeable vacat above
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 47mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the necropolis in the area of via Dott. Consoli in the period of the 1950s and 1960s
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico di Catania , inscr.48
- Autopsy
- Prag 2024-03-19, in storage in the ex Manifattura Tabacchi, epigraphic cassette 2
- Map
Date
Roman imperial period (AD 1 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The fragment is unpublished. The use of rhomboid omicron strongly suggests the text was originally in Greek, and given the archaeological context, namely the necropolis in the area of via Dott. Consoli, the fragment is most likely to be part of a Greek funerary inscription of the imperial period. The text potentially comes from the first line given the vacat above.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/15/2024