ISic001147: Epitaph for Marcus Mounatios Philippos

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2022-05-23

ID: ISic001147
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

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Apparatus criticus

Text controlled against photograph;
2: The final sigma is enclosed inside the preceding omicron

Physical description

Support

Description: A white marble plaque, well preserved
Object type: plaque
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 24.5 cm, width: 34 cm, depth: 4.5 cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.unspecified > unspecified

Inscription

Layout: Text is approximately centred, over three lines, reducing in size, with words broken to maintain the centring.
Text condition: complete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Lunate sigma and epsilon, curved bar alpha, phi with a triangular body, xsi formed like Zeta but with a crossed diagonal, mu with extended vertical strokes.
Letter heights: Line 1-3: 35-45mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found: Acquired by the Palermo museum 24 July 1873, from Di Giorgi of Termini Imerese.

Current location

Place: Palermo, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas; 8811
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

4th century CE (AD 301 - AD 400)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

The text is dated palaeographically and is one of several from Termini in this elegant later style.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

5/14/2026