ISic003315: Fragment

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 2016-05-13

ID: ISic003315
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: draft
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text based on photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of a marble plaque.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 9 cm, width: 8 cm, depth: 2.8 cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: A with slanting bar, lunate Σ.
Letter heights: Lines 1-2: 30mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin: Catina
Provenance found: Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania; observed by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Museo Civico.

Current location

Place: Catania, Italy
Repository: Museo Civico di Catania
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

3rd — 5th century CE (AD 201 - AD 500)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Korhonen felt unable to determine whether the fragment is Latin or Greek, but the shape of the letters suggests it is Greek.

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 230

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Marta Fogagnolo

Contributors

Last revision

12/22/2022