ISic003625: partially legible epitaph

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Rizzone

Physical description

Support

Description

Limestone plaque, cut away from the original wall of the catacomb, and with the face in a poor state of preservation

Object type

plaque

Material

limestone

Object condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 45 cm, width: 34 cm, depth: 5-9.5 cm

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

partly_illegible

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

No data

Letter heights

Line 1-11: 40mm

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. Omitted from Orsi's original publication.

Map

Current location

Place

Ragusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Ibleo

Autopsy

None

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 645698
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• Antonio Ferrua, «Sicilia Bizantina», Epigraphica 5–6 (1944 1943): 85–100, at 99-100 tav.2.5
• 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, at 55 no.4

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

12/15/2025