ISic003511: Epitaph for Klodia Romana
- ID
- ISic003511
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon Bitto 2001 and photograph.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An intact marble tablet, uneven on the left and upper borders, with minor damage to the lower left corner
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 21 cm, width: 26.8 cm, depth: 1.8-2.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek text, observing a regular left margin, with hedera in the four corners
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Somewhat irregular letters, tending to cursive (e.g. mu), and often leaning to the left; omega, sigma and epislon all lunate in form; theta a circle with an unconnected central bar; triangular letters tend to have a slightly extended top stroke.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 22-28mm
- Line 5: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation lines 1 to 5: 10-13mm
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 , A3568
- Autopsy
- 2017.07.20 (Prag)
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493841
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38200002
- PHI: 313627
- 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 fig.9
- 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 4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021