ISic002129: Epitaph of Krass[---]
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph in publication
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment of a white marble plaque, currently set in the pavement of irregular slabs of re-used material in room 1. Seemingly intact above and to the upper left, but broken on the right and below.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- The first line is a centred heading, lines 2 and 3 appear to maintain a regular left margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Well-carved letters. Rhomboid theta with detached crossbar; tall narrow sigma, of standard form, with horizontal top and bottom strokes, shallow mid-strokes;
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in situ, in re-use as part of the paving of room 1 of the Terme della Rotonda, Catania
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- in situ, Terme della Rotonda
- Autopsy
- None
Date
later first or second century CE (AD 51 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Names in 'Krassi-' are surprisingly rare. Κρασσίκιος, Κρασσίων and the Latin cognomen Crassipes are almost the only forms attested.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Manganelli (2019) at 154 fig.31
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/16/2026