ISic004338: Funerary epitaph for Gaius Ophellius
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- ID
- ISic004338
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Facella, compared with photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a marble plaque (a white-grey marble with large grains), of which the left edge is preserved and parts of the upper and lower edges, the right side is lost.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 1.8-2.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is centered, with line 2 centred, but line 5 split with vacat in centre
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate letters, with extended hasta on the alpha. Alpha with striaght bar. Lunate epsilon. Phi with extended vertical (45mm)
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 20-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 5: 11mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Comiso
- Provenance found
- Found in Contrada Cifali, north of Comiso
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Santa Croce Camerina, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Kamarina
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st century CE (AD 1 - AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The layout is slightly unusual, and the position of the text in line 2, which is surely the word χρηστὲ, implies that over half the stone is missing on the right at this point, assuming that the word is centred. That leaves room for a cognomen in line 1, but also implies that there might be something missing at the end of the final line, despite the spacing, perhaps an addition of either months or days.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/18/2025