ISic003358: Inscribed funerary altar
- ID
- ISic003358
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- funerary altar
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon autopsy;
- Line.1: 2-3 letters follow but are impossible to decipher
- Line.2: The traces at the end of the line are compatible with καὶ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- funerary altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 83 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 38 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Necropolis of Grotticelli, excavated January 1929, from among several Christian/Byzantine tombs. Found along with various lamps, bowls, amphorae/alabastron and other elements, although these had been moved in antiquity from the tomb itself (so the museum inventory)
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 48604
- Autopsy
- Display Sector D
- Map
Date
Roman era (?) (AD 100 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The stone appears to be unpublished. The name of the deceased is indecipherable. The age in years appears clearly on the stone as αβ, but this is not a standard numeral and it is not obvious how to translate it; the age in months appears to be written in reverse (a phenomenon well attested in Hellenistic Sicily), in which case it is 11.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644863
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021