ISic003570: Fragmentary epitaph

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo R.J.A. Wilson 2022-06-04

ID: ISic003570
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone e Annamaria Sammito, «Nuovi documenti epigrafici dal circondario di Modica», in Da abitato in abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei, a c. di F.P. Rizzo (Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2005), 45–62 Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Rizzone and Sammito 2005

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of a limestone plaque, preserving part of the left margin, broken on the other three sides.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 10 cm, width: 12.5 cm, depth: 3 cm

Material

Description: limestone
Type > subtype: inorganic.stone > unverified

Inscription

Layout: Text somewhat irregularly preserved over four lines
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: cursive/uncial lettering, esp. alpha, delta, mu and omega, lunate epsilon
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Mutyca
Provenance found: Chance find of a hypogeum in contrada Rocciola-Scrofani (Cozzo Rotondo), eastern side of Modica, subsequently built over, from which remains this epigraphic fragment
Map

Current location

Place: Modica, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Belgiorno; 698
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

late Roman imperial (AD 301 - AD 500)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: 645641
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: 337420

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

12/9/2025