ISic003411: Tile inscribed with funerary epitaph
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ferrua 1989
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A brick, engraved after firing, broken across the lower right
- Object type
- tile
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 34 cm, depth: 5 cm
Material
- Description
- clay
- Type > subtype
- ceramic > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text incised in two lines, across the left and right sides of the upper part of a large cross incised across the middle of the brick.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 17mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in the ancient theatre of Taormina, January 1880.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- 36
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Christian (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The difficulty of reading this text means that there are multiple alternative readings and some intepret the cross as a menorah and so read this as a Jewish text instead.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644956
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- 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 (1880), 36
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di epigrafia siceliota. I. Per la storia del culto delle divinita orientali in Sicilia», Siculorum Gymnasium 14 (1961): 175–98, at 197 fig.22
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.474
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 246 no. 1055
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Giudei grecanici nella Sicilia di eta imperale (documentazione epigrafica e figurativa)», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 9–10 (2005 2004): 357–72, at 364 fig.5
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 229 G17 fig.12
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026