ISic003447: Funerary inscription of Caius Sextius

Apparatus criticus

Text based on edition of Cordano 2005

Physical description

Support

Description

An intact slab of limestone

Object type

plaque

Material

limestone

Condition

No data

Dimensions

height: 53 cm, width: 54 cm, depth: 6 cm

Inscription

Layout

Latin text over two lines, with the second line centred

Text condition

No data

Letter heights

Lines 1-2: 90-100mm

Interlinear heights

Not measured: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Monte Catalfaro

Provenance found

Monte Catalfaro

Map

Current location

Place

Mineo, Italy

Repository

Museo Civico Corrado Tamburino Merlini , 5194

Autopsy

2014.10.30 Metcalfe

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The text employs the vocative and salutation formula which is found in several of the Greek epitaphs from Mineo, including the text on the reverse of this stone (ISic003448). The text comes from Monte Catalfaro, c.3km NE of Mineo.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 644925
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 70900746
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• A. Messina, «Monte Catalfaro e l’identificazione di Noai», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 9 (1970): 24–34, at 30 n.16 tav.11.4
• Federica Cordano, «Epigrafi», in Museo Civico «Corrado Tamburino Merlini» di Mineo: sezione archeologica, a c. di Laura Maniscalco (Mineo: Comune di Mineo, 2005), 119–25, at 121
• Federica Cordano, «Materiale vecchio e nuovo dalla Sicilia orientale», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, a c. di T. Alfieri Tonini e S. Struffolino, Aristonothos. Scritti per il Medterraneo antico. Quaderni n.4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 105–11, at 107-108 no.6

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Sinja Küppers
• Simona Stoyanova
• system

Last revision

9/15/2022