ISic001517: Epitaph for the doctor Phelix
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Agnello 1953, checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Square marble plaque, discoloured on the upper half.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 21.5 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Seven lines of Greek letters, observing a consistent left margin, reducing in size after line 3.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate sigma, lunate and qudate epsilon, broken bar alpha, but also 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.Giovanni and now on display in Sector F, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- 14447
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th century CE (AD 301 - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
For the cost of purchase, cf. IG14.142 (ISic000959)
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645017
- 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 486 no.165
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.21
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 64, 85
- F.P. Rizzo, La menzione del lavoro nelle epigrafi della Sicilia antica: per una storia della mentalità, Seia 6 (Palermo, 1989), at 63 no.21
- Cassia (2009) at 170 no.22
- Gioconda Lamagna e R. Amato, La Rotonda di Adelfia. Testimonianze archeologiche dalla catacomba di S. Giovanni (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2014), at 22 ph
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/11/2026