ISic003033: Epitaph of Konstantinos, Mellosos and Niketas

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; Manganaro 2001, fig.1

ID: ISic003033
Status: draft
Language: Ancient Greek
Object type: plaque
Text type: funerary

Edition

Giacomo Manganaro, «Byzantina Siciliae», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 4, fasc. 5 (2001): 131–78 Zotero

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Apparatus criticus

Text after Manganaro 2001, with ligatures added

Physical description

Support

Description: A plaque of white marble, broken in 3 and recomposed (Manganaro identifies as Luna marble), now built into a wall of the sacristy of the cathedral
Object type: plaque
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 28 cm, width: 52 cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Extensive use of ligatures
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Mazara
Provenance found: Found 1960 in via Bartolomeo Mandina and subsequently walled into the Cathedral sacristy.

Current location

Place: Mazara del Vallo, Sicilia
Repository: Cathedral of Mazara del Vallo
Autopsy: None

Date

mid-6th — mid-7th century CE (CE 551 - CE 650)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

B. Rocco, «Evoluzione paleocristiana in Sicilia. Rinvenimento di un’epigrafe greca», Ho theólogos. Quadrimestrale della Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia «S. Giovanni Evangelista» 1, fasc. 3 (1983): 471–76.
Brugnone (1988) at 360-361
SEG at (1992), 42.0869
SEG at (2001), 51.1378
Giacomo Manganaro, «Byzantina Siciliae», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 4, fasc. 5 (2001): 131–78, at 131-134 fig.1

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/2/2026