ISic003431: epitaph for a woman

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003431
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
brick
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Orsi

Physical description

Support

Description
A 'mattonella', a slim brick, broken on the left side.
Object type
brick
Material
brick
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 31.5 cm, width: 27 cm, depth: 7.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Text laid out in relatively large letters within an incised frame, with a vacat at the bottom, but otherwise filling the available field.
Text condition
incomplete #text_condition, legible
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Enna
Provenance found
A chance find, some years prior to 1931 in Contrada Balatella, 24km south of Enna, by one cav. Francesco Dajala, said in 1931 still to be in possession of the object.
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Current location

Place
Enna, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
No data

Date

3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Orsi consulted Guarducci for advice on the non-standard forms in the text. Parallels can be found in ISic001313 from Catania. The text is unusual in being carved into the brick slab after firing. The implication of the restorations conjectured for lines 2-3 is that not more than c.4 letters are missing from the personal name in line 1.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
3/1/2021