ISic001911: Fragment of a monumental Latin text

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 2022-02-15

ID: ISic001911
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Ilenia Gradante

Apparatus criticus

Text of Gradante from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of white marble plaque, subsequently cut down on all sides for re-use, and broken on the upper right subsequent to the re-use for the reverse text. Opisthographic plaque, with later text on the reverse,
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 22 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout

Remains of two monumental letters, no original margin preserved; possible trace of the top of a letter on the lower edge?

Text condition

incomplete #text_condition, legible

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 155mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: 68mm

Provenance

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

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 159
Autopsy: IG 2022-02-09
Map

Date

1st or 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

The inscription was cut down to a small rectangular plaque for re-use as an epitaph in the catacombs. Brown marks on both sides of the stone derive from a wooden frame used previously to display the plaque. The text is clearly a monumental public Latin text of the high imperial period, perhaps originally from the area of the Forum.

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

5/7/2025