ISic002099: Epitaph for Kaladion
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small square marble plaque, with thick layer of mortar on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 17 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Fine-grained, veined and striped, grey marble, likely Carystian. Digital microscopy: indistinguishable fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Carystian
- Provenance
- Styra
- Map
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is set in the four quarters around a large staurogram which fills the width and height of the tablet, with hederae at its feet.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Already in the inventory in 1885, and noted by Orsi in 1888
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 88
- Autopsy
- Gradante
- Map
Date
Catacomb of San Giovanni (CE 275 - CE 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Antonio Ferrua, «Note di epigrafia cristiana siracusana», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 4–5 (1939 1938): 19–37, at 34
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p.120
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/5/2026