ISic004474: I.Sicily inscription 004474
- ID
- ISic004474
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Orsi 1896, checked against photograph, with some layout annotations.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Quadrangular marble plaque with irregular borders.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text on 7 straight lines; rubricated letters, guidelines visible.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Line 2: possible cursive H in ἔζησε, read as I by Orsi; line 3: in the first M it is clearly visible the first draft of a lunate sigma, subsequently corrected by the stonecutter.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb of S. Giovanni
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 15506
- Autopsy
- No autopsy
- Map
Date
C4 AD - C5 AD (AD 313 - AD 500)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/28/2021