ISic003433: Epitaph for Belleia Vesonia

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: ISic003433
Language: Latin
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

Text based upon Bitto 2001 and controlled against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: A rectangular tablet of white marble with dark veining; slight chipping to the edges.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 19.5 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 1.5 cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.marble > unspecified

Inscription

Layout: Latin text laid out neatly over four lines, neatly filling the available space (regular left margin, irregular right margin). Line 1 has large hedera at each end.
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Neatly v-cut letters, with faint traces of guidelines. The letters have deep serifs at the end of strokes: E is often very narrow, with the horizontal bars angled upwards; M and A in the final line have extended upper strokes, tending towards cursive; interpuncts are variable in form.
Letter heights: Line 1: 27mm; Lines 2-4: 30mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation lines 1 to 4: 8-11mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Messana
Provenance found: Found within a funerary building within the area designated 'recinto B' by Paolo Orsi during excavation in 1914 of the
Map

Current location

Place: Messina, Sicilia
Repository: Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina; A3554
Autopsy: Currently on display
Map

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2021