ISic002094: Epitaph for Soter

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 R.J.A. Wilson 2022-06-04
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 R.J.A. Wilson 2022-06-04
ID
ISic002094
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Terranova, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
A plaque of the local soft limestone, intact above, left and right, broken below.
Object type
plaque
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 22 cm, width: 27 cm, depth: 4.5 cm

Material

Description
limestone
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
Five lines of Latin letters, filling the width of the stone.
Text condition
complete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
rubrication
Lettering

Deeply carved plain latin letters, S consistently reversed, traces of rubrication. Greek cross at start with forks at the end of each stroke.

Letter heights
Line 1-5: 25mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Mutyca
Provenance found
Found in excavation in 2013, a partially violated hypogeum in the vicinity of multiple others, in contrada Treppiedi, Modica
Map

Current location

Place
Modica, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Belgiorno
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

6th century CE (AD 501 - AD 600)
Evidence
archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions
  • TM: -
  • EDR: -
  • EDH: -
  • EDCS: -
  • PHI: -
Printed editions
  • Terranova (2014) at 81 no.87
  • Rizzone (2014) at 75 no.5 fig.5

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/16/2025