ISic004357: I.Sicily inscription 004357

Photo J. Prag (2014), Aut. Assessorato Beni Culturali Regione Siciliana n.10681 del 06/05/2014
ID
ISic004357
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
funerary altar
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Orsi 1889 and photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
Part of a marble funerary altar, with moulding across the top. The upper part is somewhat damaged / worn; the surviving stone has been cut/sawn to left and right, and it is unclear if the base is original or not (the stone is mounted in a plaster block for display).
Object type
funerary altar
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 65 cm, width: 25 cm, depth: 15 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of large relatively thin letters are partially preserved.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
Original discovery is not recorded, but among Syracusan material in the initial inventory of the museum, compiled in 1885.

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 248
Autopsy
Photographed in magazzino C of the museum, but not formally recorded, in 2014/15
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The first line of the inscription is recorded in pencil in the final page of Orsi's second notebook (taccuino), in which he transcribed almost the entire existing collection of the museum; this inscription seems to have been missed in that initial survey, and this pencil note seems to have remained uncompleted. No information is preserved regarding the origin of the stone, which was already in the museum's collection when the inventory was begun, but was omitted from the material in CIL X, but whether through accident or only being added to the collection in the course of the 1880s is unclear.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/2/2021