ISic004465: I.Sicily inscription 004465
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ferrua, who considers the monogram to refer to the deceased; checked against photograph with the addition of a new letter as abbreviation for Ἰησοῦς.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular plaque of "bardiglio" marble with irregular borders.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Fine-grained, banded and veined, grey marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Göktepe, Hymettan. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Lunense,Docimian,Göktepe,Hymettan
Inscription
- Layout
- Large Christogram flanked by a palm branch on the left and a fish on the right, both lightly scratched. On the right side of the plaque a monogram.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- scratched
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- San Diego cemetery (catacombs of Vigna Cassia)
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 40535
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
C4 AD - C6 AD (AD 313 - AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/22/2021