ISic003199: Record of tomb purchase by Gerontios
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- ID
- ISic003199
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Libertini
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, of which no physical details recorded by Libertini
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text centred under a christogram
- 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
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Recovered from excavations during the work for construction of the new Post Office between via S. Euplio and via Stesicora, in the final months of 1923; found c.3m to the west of a group of 6 tombs.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
4th — 5th century CE according to Libertini (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Libertini infers that the inscription refers to the group of 6 tombs located a short distance to the east, but there seems no basis for this other than proximity of the find.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645529
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329624
- 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 108
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0060
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/28/2025