ISic003624: Epitaph for Zosimos

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ID
ISic003624
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
Links
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Edition

Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «La catacomba A e le iscrizioni di Treppiedi», in La necropoli di Treppiedi a Modica, a c. di G. Di Stefano (Palermo: Sellerio, 2009), 52–58 Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Rizzone;
  • 1: Orsi, Ferrua: Ὁνωρίῳ
  • 4: Rizzone: μ ρᾳ (presumably a typographic omission)

Physical description

Support

Description
A rectangular plaque of the local limestone, broken in three pieces and rejoined, seemingly missing part of the right margin.
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 21 cm, width: 44 cm, depth: 4 cm

Inscription

Layout
Four lines, with the fourth line centred
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1-4: 30mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Mutyca
Provenance found
Discovered in the early 1930s, recovered from catacomb A in contrada Treppiedi, Modica. Subsequently in Siracusa and then Ragusa Museums.
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Current location

Place
Ragusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Ibleo
Autopsy
Observed in Ragusa museum, 2015.01.13
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Date

402 CE (cos. date) (AD 402 - AD 402)
Evidence
internal-date

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/15/2025