ISic003513: I.Sicily inscription 003513
- ID
- ISic003513
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bitto;
- 2: Orsi: Σαβε(ῖ)ν[α] or Σαβέν[να]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque broken in two fragments across the middle; the fragments join. The right margin is lost, including the upper right corner. The lower margin is damaged, with the lower left and right corners missing.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 25 cm, depth: 2.1-2.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is more or less centered and concentrated on the upper portion of the plaque, with extensive use of interpuncts. Perhaps a single letter missing from the end of line 2.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 24mm
- Line 3-4: 20mm
- 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 , A3567
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493843
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38200004
- PHI: 313629
- 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 137
- 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 6
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 8/16/2022