ISic000083: Funerary inscription for Iulia Florentina
- ID
- ISic000083
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text controlled against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A slab of Luna marble, partly corroded in the centre. Slighty convex in form (thinner at the edges). Intact on all sides. The rear is unfinished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 48.5 cm, width: 47 cm, depth: 3-4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Thirteen lines of Latin text, filling the available space.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-13: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in July 1730, exact provenance not clear, but likely in the area of the necropolis immediately north of Piazza Stesicoro, either in the vicinity of the basilica on via Dott. Consoli, or else along via Sant'Euplio
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Paris, France
- Repository
- Louvre , MA2994
- Autopsy
- None
Date
First quarter of the 4th century CE (on the basis of the office of 'corrector') (AD 301 – AD 329)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
A cast of the inscription is preserved in the Museo Civico di Catania, the original is in the Louvre.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7112
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1995.0688
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1959.0023
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.85
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni latine e greche di Catania tardo-imperiale», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale ser.4 vol.11-12 (1959 1958): 5–30, at 10-15 no.2 fig.2
- S Ducroux, Catalogue analytique des inscriptions latines sur pierre conservées au Musée du Louvre. (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1975), at 224, no.854
- R.M. Bonacasa Carra, «Architettura religiosa cristiana nella Sicila del IV secolo-aspetti e problemi», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 408–23, at 422-423
- Irma Bitto, «Alcune osservazioni sulla iscrizione di Iulia Florentina (CIL X 7112)», Hestiasis. Studi di tardo antichita offerti a Salvatore Calderone 6 (1989): 245–87, at 245-287
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 302-303 fig.260 n.105
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Greco nei pagi e latino nelle città della Sicilia romana tra I e VI sec. d.C.», in l’epigrafia del villaggio, a c. di A. Calbi, A. Donati, e G. Poma (Faenza, 1993), 543–94, at 554 ph
- Irma Bitto, «Catania paleocristiana: l’epitaffio di Theodule», in Catania Antica. Atti del Convegno della S.I.S.A.C. (Catania 23-24 maggio 1992), a c. di B. Gentili (Pisa, 1996), 279–92, at 279 n.2
- C. Soraci, «Zoilo, Costantino e le fores martyrum catanesi. Ancora sullʼepigrafe di Iulia Florentina», Klio 99, fasc. 1 (2017): 238–59, https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2017-0009.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 6/12/2025