ISic004390: Fragmentary early Christian funerary inscription
- ID
- ISic004390
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Tréziny 2011;
- fr.b.line.1: Tréziny: alternatively φλ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Four fragments of a green marble plaque, re-used in a polychrome opus sectile pavement. Part of the upper margin is preserved, as well as the right margin of the text. The fourth, separate fragment, preserves part of the left margin, but its relationship to the other fragments is unclear. Most of the left and all of the lower parts of the text are lost. Dimensions record max height and width of the surviving, joining, three fragments.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 2.9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of Greek letters, with small space to the margin at top, and vacat to the right and a roughly consistent right margin, suggesting line ends are preserved. The letters on the fourth fragment are smaller, and preserve vacat to the left suggesting line beginning. A further line is partially preserved on the fourth fragment.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 12mm
- Line 2: 12-14mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 2mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 1-2mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Megara Hyblaea, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Megara Hyblaia
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th century CE (AD 301 – AD 399)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The restorations are to some extent exempli gratia, since e.g. the Kalends is possible instead of the Ides, and October and November are also possible restorations for the month. It is not clear where the second fragment fits in (the letters are smaller, but the marble is the same). Although Tréziny suggest lambda is also possible, from the photograph alpha looks reasonably certain. As Tréziny notes, there appears to be a vacat after the second letter.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Henry Tréziny, « À propos d’une inscription funéraire paléochrétienne de Mégara Hyblaea », Provence Historique. Hommages à Jean Guyon 61, no 243‑244 (2011): 127‑34, at 127-129 with fig.1
- Henry Tréziny, Mégara Hyblaea. 7, La ville classique, hellénistique et romaine, CEFR 1/7 (Rome: École française de Rome, 2018), at 283-284 with fig.422
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021