ISic003510: Epitaph for Lucius Ostrius Crescens
- ID
- ISic003510
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon Bitto 2001 Photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A slightly irregular small tablet of marble
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 20.5 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters approximately centred on the stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Thinly but deeply incised regular letters with minimal serifs and of slightly uneven size. R has a small open eye, with a long straight tail; E is fully perpendicular with equal length strokes; M is made up four equal oblique strokes reaching to top and bottom of the line.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 25mm
- Line 2: 20-22mm
- Lines 3-4: 20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 4: 9-14mm
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 , A3560
- Autopsy
- Currently on display
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- 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 134
- 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 3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021