ISic004439: I.Sicily inscription 004439

Photo 2017 courtesy Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi (Aut. Assessorato Beni Culturali Regione Siciliana n.10681 del 06/05/2014)

ID: ISic004439
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

Text of Orsi checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: Quadrangular marble plaque.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: banded, white marble, likely Proconnesian. Digital microscopy: indistinguishable fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
Type > subtype: stone.marble > Proconnesian
Provenance: Marmara District
Map

Inscription

Layout: Text on 5 straight lines with rubricated letters.
Text condition: complete #text_condition, legible
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: catacomba di Marcia (Vigna Cassia)

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi; 12997
Autopsy: No Autopsy
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Date

later C3 AD - C4 AD (AD 275 - AD 400)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: -
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Paolo Orsi, «Siracusa. Esplorazioni nelle catacombe di S. Giovanni ed in quelle della vigna Cassia», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1893, 276–314, at (1893), 304 no. 103

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/5/2025