ISic000968: Epitaph for Makarios
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IG
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small square plaque of marble
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Parian-2, Proconnesian, Thasian-1. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Parian-2,Proconnesian,Thasian-1
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Angular / square letter forms, with rhomboid (open) omega and theta, lunate epsilon, quadrate sigma, alpha with left downward sloping bar (in the style of cursive alpha).
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb of S.Lucia; now on display in Sector F of the Siracusa museum
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 87
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492593
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102120
- PHI: 140444
- Printed editions
- E. Curtius, A. Kirchhoff, and H. Roehl, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum IV. Pars XXXIX. Inscriptiones locorum incertorum. Pars XL. Inscriptiones christianae. Indices (1877)., vol. 4, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1877), at 9453
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 146
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.45
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p. 86
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/6/2025