ISic004468: I.Sicily inscription 004468
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from Ferrua, checked against photograph.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rhomboidal grey marble plaque with irregular borders.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Fine to medium-grained, banded , grey marble, likely Aphrodisian, Parian-1, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian, Thasian-3, Ephesian_scritto, Ephesian_white. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Parian-1,Parian-2,Parian-3,Parian-4,Proconnesian,Thasian-3,Ephesian_scritto,Ephesian_white
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on one straight line with staurogram above the line and heart-shaped ivy leaf below, both in a central position. Elegant letters with serifs; still visible the guidelines for the framing of the epigraphic field.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
A with broken crossbar.
- 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
- 40543
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
second half C5 AD (staurogram; palaeography) (AD 451 - AD 500)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
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