ISic003515: I.Sicily inscription 003515
- ID
- ISic003515
- 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 Orsi and Bitto, controlled against photograph of cast.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble fragment, intact on the right margin, but broken on all other sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Ends of two lines preserved, with a consistent right margin, with a hedera below on the right margin. Guidelines are clearly visible in the photograph of the cast.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate epsilon and simple hedera.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- 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
Only a plastercast is preserved in the museum, the original appears to be lost.
Date
1st â 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645375
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 313631
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Messana. La necropoli romana di S. Placido e di altre scoperte avvenute nel 1910-1915», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 121â218, at 137
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dellâAntichitĂ dellâUniversitĂ degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at iv
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/16/2022