ISic001520: Epitaph for Alexander and Rhodope
- ID
- ISic001520
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Status
- draft
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Agnello
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A square marble plaque, broken in half vertically, and reconnected.
- Object type
- No data
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Fine-grained marble, likely Lunense, Docimian, Pentelic. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Lunense,Docimian,Pentelic
Inscription
- Layout
- Seven lines of crudely incised Greek letters, filling the face.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Very crudely scratched letters, lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- The left fragment (inv.14469) was found in the Catacomb of S.Giovanni in 1895, in the first northern gallery, III corsia est; the right fragment (inv.191) was already in the museum collection before 1888 and recorded so by Orsi in his Taccuini. Now on display, sector F, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Orsi speculated on an identification with a hypothetical bishop of the early 7th century, but this remains highly speculative. (AD 451 - AD 650)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645020
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Nuove esplorazioni nelle catacombe di S. Giovanni nel 1894», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1895, 477–521, at 507 no.232
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.24
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 80 n.441
- 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. 119
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/11/2026