ISic004353: I.Sicily inscription 004353
- ID
- ISic004353
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: Biondi: πρὸ ι καλ
- 2: The character after final Κ is either Α or Λ, followed by the tops of two further letters.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick plaque of marble, broken on all sides. The rear is finished but not polished, with traces of plaster.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 12.0 cm, width: 30.0 cm, depth: 6.9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate sigma in quadrate form, kappa with short arms, use of ligature, interpuncts of plain dots.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 25-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae medium certainty
- Provenance found
- From the area of the rione Forca, in the vicinity of the 'Dogana' tomb, Centuripe
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo di Archeologia dell'Universita di Catania , 05/102
- Autopsy
- 2016.05.12
- Map
Date
consular date of 426 or 427 (AD 426 - AD 427)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
Rizzone and Ferrua identify a consular date in line 2, Theodosius for the 12 time and Valentinian
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 17 no.55 (14 fig.2a)
- G. Biondi e G. Buscemi Felici, «Iscrizioni», in Il museo archeologio dell’Università di Catania. Collezione Libertini, a c. di G. Biondi, G. Buscemi Felici, e E. Tortorici (Acireale: Bonanno editore, 2014), 170–73, at 171 no. 242 fig. 42
- Rizzone (2014) at 97 no.14 fig.30
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025