ISic003512: I.Sicily inscription 003512
- ID
- ISic003512
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bitto
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, chipped along the edges and missing the lower right corner. The rear is roughly finished, with a border along the upper edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 18.5 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 1.8-2.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is centred, with a fixed left margin and irregular right margin, with hedera set in the lower corners.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate epsilon, sigma and omega, ornate hederae.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- From the 1914 excavation of the necropolis of San Placido
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A3558
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The numeral is here interpreted (following Bitto) as acrophonic and ascending, i.e. two verticals, the second in ligature with a Π for πέντε. The hederae in the final line include a third hedera of different from.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493842
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38200003
- PHI: 313628
- 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 5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/16/2022