ISic001910: I.Sicily inscription 001910

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo I. Gradante 2021-11-25

ID: ISic001910
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

Antonio Ferrua, «Florilegio d’iscrizioni paleocristiane di Sicilia», Rendiconti della pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 22 (1947 1946): 227–39 Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Ferrua 1946-1947, checked against photograph.

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of dark marble plaque, broken on left
Object type: plaque
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 10.5 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: 2 cm

Material

Description: Very fine-grained, homogeneous, dark grey marble, likely Bardiglio, Hymettan, Pentelic, Docimian. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype: stone.marble > Bardiglio,Hymettan,Pentelic,Docimian

Inscription

Layout: Text on 2 lines
Text condition: incomplete #text_condition, legible
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: quadrate lunate sigma, standard epsilon.
Letter heights: Line 1-2: 30mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Catacomb of S. Giovanni

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 131
Autopsy: IG 2021-11-19
Map

Date

C4 AD - C5 AD (AD 313 - AD 500)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: -
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

5/7/2025