Funerary inscription of Zethus Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing James Cummings conversion to EpiDoc James Chartrand site construction and encoding Valeria Vitale editing of geo data Michael Metcalfe museum data collection Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes I.Sicily ISic000001 491696 21900531 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic000001 10.5281/zenodo.4333721 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence Italy Sicily Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas 3501 Latin

Marble plaque, employed as cover of a small sarcophagus

marble plaque 17.5 29.3 1.5-2

Three lines, roughly centered, but not perfectly perpendicular to the stone

chiselled Line 1 32-35 Line 2 35 Line 3 30-32 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Caltanissetta 37.49025, 14.06216 between later 1st and 3rd century CE Found in 'feudo Landri di Placido Notarbartolo duca di Villarosa, in the territory of Caltanissetta in 1782. None

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Dis · manibus · Zethi vixit · annis · VI
Text from photograph Mommsen: vixit

To the shades of the underworld. (Memorial) of Zethus. He lived 6 years.

Castelli 1784 cl. 14 no. 147 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002083 10.7190 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000589 1 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002142