ISic001898: Fragment of a Greek funerary inscription

ID: ISic001898
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text from photograph;
1: Marshall: [---]ι
3: Marshall: [---]στη · δο
6: Marshall: [ἐτῶ]ν · η

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of a white marble plaque, intact on the right edge, and probably below, broken above and to the left.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 14.25 cm, width: 6.95 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The right end of up to six lines of Greek letters preserved with an irregular right margin.

Text condition

incomplete

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Agrigentum
Provenance found: Obtained by George Dennis from Agrigento and given to the British Museum in 1863.

Current location

Place: London, United Kingdom
Repository: The British Museum , 1863,0728.235
Autopsy: No autopsy

Date

C2-C3 CE (AD 101 – AD 300)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

The fragment is only published in the British Museum catalogue, by Marshall based on autopsy between 1909 and 1916. I diverge from Marshall at line 3, where from the photograph it appears better to read ἔτη in ligature. It appears that the numeral in line 3 is written in reverse, i.e. pseudo-ascending. The inscription is online on the BM website, at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1863-0728-235

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Edward Lee Hicks et al., eds, The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, 4 vols (Oxford: Printed by order of the Trustees, at the Clarendon Press, 1874), at vol. 4, p.218, no.1103

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/27/2025