ISic004363: I.Sicily inscription 004363
- ID
- ISic004363
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick fragment of an off-white marble plaque, which is intact top and left, including lower left corner (with rough edges), but broken across the right side. The reverse is unfinished and rough.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 14.2 cm, depth: 3.2-4.0 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters, with irregular left margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 19-22mm
- Line 4: 15-19mm
- Line 5: 13-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 3: 8-12mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 3-5mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 10-12mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, from Centuripe prior to 2 Feb 1907.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 27069
- Autopsy
- Depositi, Magazzino B, cassa 4, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Map
Date
Imperial period (AD 100 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The layout of the text suggests ἔζησεν in full, but other Greek funerary texts from Centuripe suggest that ἔζησες might be possible.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
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
- 2/3/2022