ISic003454: I.Sicily inscription 003454

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
ISic003454
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
Links
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Rizzone 2009
  • 5: μαν Rizzone 2009 suggests as alternative

Physical description

Support

Description
Thick plaque of limestone, broken in two (joining fragments), intact at the top, but broken left, right and below. Rizzone suggests it may have been the cover of a sarcophagus, but it is hard to see how this could be proven.
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 85 cmwidth: 86 cmdepth: 18 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1-5: 130mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Menae
Provenance found
Territory of Mineo, probably contrada Favarotta
Map

Current location

Place
Mineo, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Corrado Tamburino Merlini , 5199
Autopsy
2014.10.30 Metcalfe
Map

Date

6th — 7th century CE (Rizzone) (AD 501 – AD 700)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The text of Cordano 2005 / 2014 is misleading (and the suggestion that the text is in a mixture of Greek and Latin is clearly incorrect), and the edition of Rizzone is to be preferred.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
10/6/2022