ISic002905: Fragment of a funerary epitaph
- ID
- ISic002905
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Manganaro 1982, controlled against photograph;
- 1: Trace of line above not noted by Manganaro
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque, borken on all sides
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 5.5 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 1.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Traces of three lines of regularly cut Greek letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 14mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Piazza Armerina
- Provenance found
- Villa del Casale
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Piazza Armerina, Italy
- Repository
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd or 4th century CE (AD 201 – AD 400)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Reference to years, most likely an age, in line 2 makes this most likely an epitaph
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645298
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900603
- PHI: 330707
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 55.1016
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 32.0930
- Giacomo Manganaro, ‘Die Villa von Piazza Armerina, Residenz des kaiserlichen Prokurators, und ein mit ihr verbundenes Emporium von Henna’, in Palast und Hütte : Beiträge zum Bauen und Wohnen im Altertum von Archäologen, Vor- und Frühgeschichtlern: Tagungsbeiträge eines Symposiums der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, veranstaltet vom 25.-30. November 1979 in Berlin, ed. D. Papenfuss and V.M. Strocka (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1982), 493–513, at 508 no.14 fig.22
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Note storiche ed epigrafiche per la villa (praetorium) del Casale di Piazza Armerina», Sicilia Antiqua 2 (2005): 173–91, at 188 fig.29
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/10/2025