ISic003314: Christogram
- ID
- ISic003314
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Block of volcanic stone.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- volcanic
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 50 cm, width: 45 cm, depth: 12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 150mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 709
- Autopsy
- Observed by Stevenson in Antiquarium comunale (Museo dei Benedettini) and later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico (from the Collezione dei Benedettini) (formerly sala VIII, 56).
- Map
Date
4th — 6th century CE (AD 301 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
A parallel for the form of this Christogram is IG 14.526 = ISic001345. The material suggests a provenance if not from Catania itself at least from the area around Etna.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645572
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316296
- Printed editions
- F. Nicosia, «Un’epigrafe cristiana del territorio di Acate», Archivio Storico Siracusano 5–6 (1960 1959): 125–28, at 127-128 n.19 and fig.1
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 227
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022