ISic003570: Fragmentary epitaph

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

Material

limestone

Object condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: 10 cm, width: 12.5 cm, depth: 3 cm

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, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Belgiorno , 698

Autopsy

None

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0933
• Rizzone and Sammito (1998) at 23, 26, fig.3
• 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, at 53-54 fig.7
• Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, Annamaria Sammito, e Simona Sirugo, a c. di, Il museo civico di Modica «F.L. Belgiorno» (Monza: Polimetrica, 2009), at 69 fig.37

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

12/9/2025