ISic003614: Epitaph for Salvia

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ID
ISic003614
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
rock-cut tomb
Status
draft
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Edition

Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «Vecchie e nuove, vere e presunte iscrizioni tardo-antiche della campagna Netina», Nea Rhome 5 (2008): 17–26 Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Rizzone 2008;
  • 1: Fuehrer and Schultze: ΣΑΛΒΝ [---] ΙΡΟ(?)

Physical description

Support

Description
The text funs along the arch of the second arcosolium on the left in hypogeum E
Object type
rock-cut tomb
Material
stone
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Irregular lunate letters

Letter heights
Line 1: 50mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Rosolini
Provenance found
Hypogeum E, contrada Stafenna-Coda di Lupo, Rosolini
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Current location

Place
Rosolini, contrada Stafenna-Coda di Lupo, Italy
Repository
in situ, hypogeum E
Autopsy
None

Date

late Roman (AD 301 - AD 600)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Rizzone notes a parallel in ISic003076 for the likely construction, vocative followed by a prayer for remembrance. Agnello merely reported Fuehrer's text, claiming the text was no longer legible.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/12/2025