ISic003178: I.Sicily inscription 003178
- ID
- ISic003178
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1923, with a different interpretation of the first Christian symbol
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular limestone plaque, broken in 3 contiguous fragments, lower left corner and right side lost.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on 3 straight lines, within a chiselled linear frame. The Christian symbols (2 staurograms on a triangle or stylised hill at the beginning of the first line and below the text in central position) have been erased in antiquity ("damnatio Christianorum" P. Orsi).
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- neighbourhood of S. Lucia
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 43119
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
C5 AD - C6 AD (AD 401 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645508
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329569
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0002
- 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 121-122 fig.4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/22/2021