ISic003407: fragmentary funerary inscription
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ferrua
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a stone plaque, broken on the left side and above, intact right and below, preserving the lower right corner.
- Object type
- unknown
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 8.5 cm, width: 13.2 cm, depth: 3 cm
Material
- Description
- Fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Göktepe, Hymettan. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Lunense,Docimian,Göktepe,Hymettan
Inscription
- Layout
- heavy guide lines preserved below each line.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in 1885 in Contrada S. Leo, near the theatre
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- 31
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
fourth-fifth century CE (?) (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644952
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 140751
- 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 (1885), 405
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 437a
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 117
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.482
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 228 G13
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026