ISic003523: Epitaph for Cytisus
- ID
- ISic003523
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text according to IMusMessina 16
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An entire but eroded slab of marble with the text fully preserved.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 1.8-2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is centered on the stone but lacks a careful layout (ordinatio) and uniform distribution.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1 to 3: 12-13mm
- Line 4 to 6: 10mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 8mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 6: 15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Necropolis of San Placido, sep.39
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina , A3562
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (AD 101 - 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 173
- 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 16
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/20/2021