ISic000903: Epitaph of Beiktorinos
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG 14 checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick plaque of white marble, intact, but damaged along the upper, left and right edges.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 10 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Very fine-grained, homogeneous, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Lunense, Docimian, Göktepe, Hymettan, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Lunense,Docimian,Göktepe,Hymettan,Pentelic
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek letters essentially filling the space.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Quadrate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega, oivid theta, alpha with straight bar. Plain, square letters.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb of Vigna Cassia (Santa Maria di Gesù); now on display in Sector F of the Mus. arch. reg. P. Orsi, Siracusa
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 6119
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd — 4th century CE (AD 201 - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492533
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102060
- PHI: 140384
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/4/2025