ISic004365: I.Sicily inscription 004365

Photo J. Prag, 2014-09-11, by permission of Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi

ID: ISic004365
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: edited
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

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Apparatus criticus

Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description: A large off-white rectangular marble plaque, intact on all sides. Reverse is finished smooth.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 21.4 cm, width: 28.4 cm, depth: 1.9-2.7 cm

Material

Description: Very fine-grained, homogeneous, white, calcitic marble, likely Lunense. Optical microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric with triple points, mosaic microstructure. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy, stable isotopes analysis, EPR, LA-ICP-MS)
Type > subtype: stone.marble > Lunense
Provenance: Carrara
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Inscription

Layout: Five lines of Greek letters, with line 1 centred, lines 2-5 with a regular left margin.
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Simply and neatly cut letters with almost no serifs, well-spaced horizontally, but with minimal interlinear spacing. Simple interpuncts used frequently but inconsistently. Alpha has broken bar; epsilon is rectilinear with equal length bars; zeta is simple Z; theta is rhomboid with detached cross-bar; kappa has slightly shortened arms; omicron is rhomboid; rho has small closed and rounded eye; sigma is rectilinear with horizontal top and bottom strokes.
Letter heights: Line 1: 21-25mm; Line 2-4: 23-29mm; Line 5: 26-32mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 4: 2-4mm; Interlineation line 4 to 5: 5-7mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Centuripae
Provenance found: Original discovery not recorded, from Centuripe prior to 2 Feb 1907.

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 27071
Autopsy: Depositi, Magazzino B, cassa 4, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
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Date

Imperial period (AD 101 - AD 400)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1907), 495

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/3/2022