ISic002750: Funerary epitaph for Nonios the carpenter

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 J. Prag 2023-05-09
ID
ISic002750
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Manganaro 1994 but controlled with autopsy/photograph;
  • 8: Manganaro: ιβ’

Physical description

Support

Description
Five joining fragments of a marble plaque, of which the upper right corner is missing.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 27 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
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
Centuripae
Provenance found
Described by Libertini as a chance find in Vallata Difesa, during roadworks some 80 m from the Chiesa del Crocifisso, on the road descending towards teh sulpher works in localita Marmora. Currently on display in the Centuripe museum.

Current location

Place
Centuripe, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale di Centuripe , KA0849
Autopsy
Prag 2006-04
Map

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (Manganaro; Libertini suggests 2nd — 3rd century CE) (AD 1 - AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

A verse distych begins midway through line 3.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/3/2022