ISic003433: Epitaph for Belleia Vesonia
- ID
- ISic003433
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
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
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 19.5 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 1.5 cm
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
- Lettering
-
- 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, Italy
- 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
- Paolo Orsi, «Messana. La necropoli romana di S. Placido e di altre scoperte avvenute nel 1910-1915», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 121–218, at 133 fig.8
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at 1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Michael Economou
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021