ISic002131: I.Sicily inscription 002131
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon drawings in Agnello 1956
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three non-joining fragments of an opisthographic marble plaque. The Greek inscription is the more recent re-use of the older Latin text on the reverse for which see
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, non-contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- 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
- Catacomb of Vigna Cassia
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, Siracusa
- 37064
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Later Roman (AD 300 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The largest fragment (a) was published by Orsi in 1923, without reference to the existence of a Greek text on the reverse. The other two fragments were published, together with the first fragment, by Agnello in 1956, but he only provided drawings of each, stating that the fragments did not join and declined to attempt any editing of the text. The fragments appear to offer a typical example of the re-use of an imperial period Latin funerary plaque for a later Greek funerary plaque in the catacombs.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Manipulus epigraphicus christianus memoriae aeternae I.B. de Rossi dicatus. Contributi alla Siracusa sotterranea», Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. Memorie 1, fasc. 1 (1923): 113–22, at no.4
- S.L. Agnello, «Scavi recenti nelle catacombe di Vigna Cassia a Siracusa», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 32 (1956): 7–27, at 26 p, fig.7a-c
- Anna Maria Marchese, Sulle orme di Paolo Orsi. La necropoli di Vigna Cassia a Siracusa (Acireale-Roma, 2012), at no.43
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/1/2026