ISic004336: I.Sicily inscription 004336
- ID
- ISic004336
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment broken on the left- and right-hand sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Fragmentary text on four lines. Below them a line in about half the size of the previous lines, followed by an outline of a hand.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- From excavations in the necropolis area to south of main habitation.
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text in combination with the image of a hand below suggest a threat aimed at preventing desecration of the grave.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2012.0615
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 62.0668
- Irma Bitto, «Un nuovo epitaffio da Messina», in Ruri mea vix colendo. Studi in onore di Franco Porrà (Ortacesus: Sandhi editore, 2012), 67–75.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 11/30/2021