ISic003520: Epitaph for [---]ius Demetrius
- ID
- ISic003520
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text according to IMusMessina 13
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Right half of a slab of marble with the text partially preserved.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: not recorded cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is centered on the stone, with a careful layout (ordinatio) and uniform distribution. The first line with the name of the deceased appears in a larger size.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Line 2: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Necropolis of San Placido, recinto F
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A3553
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- 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 165
- 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 13
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/21/2021