ISic003161: Fragment of an epitaph
- ID
- ISic003161
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 2-3: Gentili: Φηλη-|[κί]ων κὲ; the reading adopted here suggested by Tod in SEG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two fragments, rejoined, of a marble plaque, off-white with pink veining. Appears intact at top and right, but broken below and to the left.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 13.2 cm, width: 16.2 cm, depth: 2.1-2.3 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of four lines of Greek letters, falling off slightly to the right.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate letters, somewhat irregular in height / layout, deeply carved.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 10-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations in advance of construction of an appartment block, at 38-40Via G. Testaferrata, in 1950
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 53167
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2014-09
- Map
Date
4th century CE (dating of Gentili by palaeography); the archaeological context was unstratified, including material from classical to Roman. (AD 301 - AD 400)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The presence of a supraline above the letters ΚΕ in line 3 very strongly suggests a numeral, and not κε for και, since κε is not an abbreviation, which would be the only other purpose of the supraline. The resolution of the name Φηλη- is uncertain.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645491
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329771
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1956), 116, fig.10
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 16.0536
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/2/2026