ISic002095: Fragmentary Latin epitaph
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- ID
- ISic002095
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after inventory / Orsi 1900;
- 2: Inventory: SIAIV; the final letter is more U than V in the drawing
- 3: Orsi indicates a damaged section prior to the break in the drawing in both inventory and publication
- 4: Inventory/Orsi 1900: the first letter is M with an additional upward stroke at the end (as for Manius, ꟿ); second letter appears as U; third letter is vertical followed by downward curving horizontal from the top of the initial hasta.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of a marble plaque, intact on the left side, possibly intact above and below, broken on the right
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A centred text over at least four lines, with DM heading.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Small, and 'cattive' letters. [so the inventory]
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Santa Croce di Camarina
- Provenance found
- Described as found in the vicinity ('contorni)' of Santa Croce di Camarina, at a date before 1900. Recorded in the Siracusa Museum inventory in 1900, but not located subsequently.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 18880
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Imperial period (AD 51 - AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The layout of the fragment in the drawing(s) by Orsi leaves open the possibility that the header was DMS or similar, given the apparent centring. The text could plausibly be restored to record a Staius Eutyches (the combination is attested in southern Italy in the Roman period), and the uncertain letters of the final line could be AN(nis) V M(ensibus) ---.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Frammenti epigrafici sicelioti», Rivista di storia antica 5 (1900): 39–66, at 48 no.12
- Uggeri (2018) at 39
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/16/2025