ISic004382: Epitaph erected by Sossis for his wife Rufina Marcia
- ID
- ISic004382
- 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 after Zavettieri 2017 and photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular tablet of white marble (a small fragment on the middle lower margin has been reattached) with minor chipping to the upper and right edges. The rear is smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 3.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters, unevenly set out and unevenly spaced (the first line is set apart by a larger gap from the remaining lines); a left margin is more or less observed.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 17mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Recovered from demolition of a C19 house on via Quod Quaeris, Messina, and therefore presumed to come from the 'northern' necropolis
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Italy
- Repository
- , ME 22800
- Autopsy
- in store
Date
2nd — 3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Cf. ISic003521 for another female member of the gens Marcia in Messina. The rare name Sossis is also attested at Catania in ISic001324
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 Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021