ISic004366: I.Sicily inscription 004366
- ID
- ISic004366
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 4: Orsi: ἔζησε σ[εμνῶς]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular plaque of off-white marble, intact on left and top sides, broken on right and along lower edge (the break is across the final preserved line of text). Reverse is unfinished and very uneven.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 13.7 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek text, somewhat compressed and uneven lines with a consistent left margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 22-26mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 4: 2-7mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Acquired by Orsi in July 1894 in Centuripe for the Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, Siracusa
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 14595
- Autopsy
- Prag 2014-09-11, depositi, Magazzino B, cassette 5
- Map
Date
Imperial period (AD 100 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The parallel offered by ISic004364 and ISic004365 suggests that ἔζησες ἔ[τη] is more plausible as a restoration in lines 4-5 than Orsi's proposal of ἔζησε σ[εμνῶς].
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