ISic003524: Funerary consolation
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bitto and Orsi.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, with the upper part of triangular form to create a tympanum. Minor chipping to the edges, and extreme lower right corner missing.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 59.2 cm, width: 68.5 cm, depth: 4-4.2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text set out on centre of stone, below the tympanum (guideline marks the base of the tympanum).
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular deeply v-cut letters with some curvature on longer strokes. Lunate sigma and epsilon; kappa has short arms. Elegant hedera at end of line 1. Phi in line 1 and Iota in line 3 are extended.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 45mm
- Line 3: 40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 3: 14-15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- From excavation in 1914 of necropolis of San Placido, recinto H, sep.56
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina
- A1382
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (CE 101 - CE 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
A Greek sententia at the entrance to a tomb with Latin epitaph
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493857
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38200013
- PHI: 313646
- Printed editions
- Orsi (1916) at 176-178 fig. 41
- IMusMessina Bitto (2001) at 17
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026