ISic003512: I.Sicily inscription 003512
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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
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 18.5 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 1.8-2.2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
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, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina
- A3558
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (CE 1 - CE 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
- Orsi (1916) at 134
- IMusMessina Bitto (2001) at 5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/15/2026