ISic001966: Epitaph for Solanos the Syrian

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, 2021-12-15

ID: ISic001966
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

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Apparatus criticus

Text of Orsi 1895 checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: A marble plaque, damaged on the right and below, and broken vertically down the middle in two, but subsequently reconnected. The text appears to be complete.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: Fine-grained, banded, grey marble, likely Aphrodisian, Proconnesian, Hymettan, Pentelic, Lunense, Ephesian_scritto. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype: stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Proconnesian,Hymettan,Pentelic,Lunense,Ephesian_scritto

Inscription

Layout: The text fills the available space, appearing therefore to have been engraved after the damaged to the right and lower edges.
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive alpha and mu.
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: Catacomb of S.Giovanni, now on display in Sector F of the Siracusa museum.

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 14603
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

Later Roman (AD 275 - AD 600)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

4/2/2026