ISic003448: Funerary inscription for Asklepiades
- ID
- ISic003448
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Cordano 2005
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Regular slab of limestone, intact on all sides
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 53 cm,Ā width: 54 cm,Ā depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- three lines of Greek letters, using the full width of the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 70-90mm
- 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
Roman period (AD 1 ā AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text implies the vocative + salutation formula which is found several times at Mineo, and reproduced in the latin epitaph engraved on the reverse of this stone (ISic003447). The text is said to come from Monte Catalfaro, c.3km NE of Mineo.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644926
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900750
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- A. Messina, Ā«Monte Catalfaro e lāidentificazione di NoaiĀ», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dellāarte 9 (1970): 24ā34, at 30 n.16 tav.11.3
- Federica Cordano, Ā«EpigrafiĀ», in Museo Civico Ā«Corrado Tamburino MerliniĀ» di Mineo: sezione archeologica, a c. di Laura Maniscalco (Mineo: Comune di Mineo, 2005), 119ā25, at 121
- Federica Cordano, Ā«Materiale vecchio e nuovo dalla Sicilia orientaleĀ», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dallāetĆ classica allāepoca ellenistica, a c. di T. Alfieri Tonini e S. Struffolino, Aristonothos. Scritti per il Medterraneo antico. Quaderni n.4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 105ā11, 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 KĆ¼ppers
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 9/15/2022