ISic004381: Fragmentary Greek epitaph
- ID
- ISic004381
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Zavettieri 2017 and photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three joining fragments of a white marble plaque, of which the upper left corner and lower right corner are missing; minor damage to the upper right corner also.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20.5 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 1.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of four lines of Greek letters, approximately centred on the stone. The beginning of lines 1 and 2 is lost, and the end of line 4 is damaged.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 21mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Excavated (between 1991 and 1997) in the southern necropolis, in re-use in the wall of a now-demolished late C18 house, isolato 83, IV comparto, via C. Battisti
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- , ME 10771
- Autopsy
- in store
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The beginning of the name in line 2 is lost. The available names in [--]νητος are relatively few (LGPN lists some 17 different names ending in -νητος, of which several are either very rare or too long. The three most common, and the only ones attested in Sicily are Ἀφθόνητος, Διόγνητος, and Θεόγνητος, of which the latter two are more likely, since the trace visible on the photo before the ν is most readily compatible with a γ.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. M. Bacci e G. Tigano, a c. di, Da Zancle a Messina, un percorso archeologico attraverso gli scavi, vol. 2.1 (Messina: Provincia Regionale di Miessina Assessorato ai beni culturali e alla pubblica istruzione, 2001), at 89 CBI/5 fig.18
- G. Zavettieri, «Le epigrafi», in Da Zancle a Messina 2016. Nuovi dati di archeologia urbana, a c. di G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2017), 167–71, at 169 no.4 fig.4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021