ISic003300: Fragmentary Latin inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 13.05.2016
ID
ISic003300
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Korhonen 2004, checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, preserving the upper margin, but broken on the other three sides. The rear preserves a moulding, suggesting that this is a re-used piece of stone from an architectural context originally.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 7.5 cm, width: 18.5 cm, depth: 3.7 cm

Inscription

Layout
Parts of two lines of Latin letters preserved, running left to right across the face; only the upper parts of line 2 preserved.
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: 35-37mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded. The fragment was seen in the Biscari collection. Mommsen suggested that it was from Rome, but as Korhonen observes, the insignificant nature of the fragment makes this unlikely, and a local, Catania, provenance is to be presumed.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania
Autopsy
mag. sup
Map

Date

5th — 6th century CE (Korhonen, on palaeogrpahical grounds) (AD 401 – AD 600)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/17/2024