ISic000002: Epitaph for Lurius Zosimus
- ID
- ISic000002
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph ;
- Line.4: Alessi reported the text as intact and read MELANTHI· ; the text seems to have suffered damaged to the right margin since discovery
- Line.4-5: Mommsen suggested 'potius Melanth(e) in suo, quam Melanthin(a) suo'.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, damaged on the right side
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 3.5-4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 20mm
- Line 2: 15-18mm
- Line 3-4: 10-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- From the Convento del Carmine, reported by Alessi as one of several find in the years preceding 1833
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3502
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The reading Melanthin, based on Alessi's text is acceptable as it is: this is the Latin transliteration of the Greek name Μελάνθιν, a "shortened" diminutive of Μελανθώ (via Μελάνθιον); this type of "shortening" in -ιον and -ιος endings (the exact nature of which, whether phonetic or morphological, is debated) occurs very frequently in inscriptions and papyri of the Roman period. The form Μελάνθιν is attested once in a third-century AD Macedonian inscription (IG 10.2,1 204), whereas LGPN has 4 attestations of Μελανθώ dating to the Hellenistic period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491568
- EDR: 141180
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900397
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Giuseppe Alessi, «III. Giuseppe Alessi al chiarissimo segretario dell’instituto archeologico, salute.», Giornale di scienze, lettere e arti per la Sicilia 42, fasc. 126 (1833): 225–35, http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/giornale/UFI0049392/1833/T.42/00000257, at 230
- Giuseppe Alessi, «Scavi di Catania», Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, fasc. 12 (1833): 172–76, at 174
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7075
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 2
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 96, L4.xx
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/1/2025