ISic003509: I.Sicily inscription 003509

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
ISic003509
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Orsi and Bitto;
  • 3: Orsi: -]NΙΚΟΣ; Bitto: -]ΙΙΚΟΣ
  • 5: Orsi: ΠΟ

Physical description

Support

Description
9 joining fragments of a marble plaque, of which only a small part of the left margin is preserved, with both upper left and lower left lost, fully preserved on the right.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 21 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Text centred on the upper part of the plaque.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Messana
Provenance found
One of three fragmentary texts recovered by Orsi in 1914 from the 'cortiletto' of 'recinto A', in the Necropolis of San Placido

Current location

The original appears to be lost, but a cast is preserved in the museum.

Date

1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Orsi seemingly mistakenly reads an omicron at the end of line 5, but as Bitto notes (seemingly confirmed by the photograph in I.Messina, p.21), there is only an interpunct visible. It seems highly likely that there was a parallel interpunct before the numeral Π (since it is common to use interpuncts to highlight numerals in this way), but this is obscured by a break in the stone/plastercast.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/15/2022