ISic000330: Funerary inscription for Aphrodito, a mime actress
- ID
- ISic000330
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A white marble plaque, apparently complete: the upper and lower edges are regular, the left and right sides irregular. The rear is finished and smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29 cm, width: 33.5 cm, depth: 2.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Latin text over six lines, roughly centred on the plaque. Lines 1-3 are more widely spaced and better centred; lines 4-6 are more compressed in the lower right.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 15-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: Not measuredmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found c.1731 in the foundations of the Church of S.Caterina da Siena (known as S. Caterina del Rosario), previously attached to the convent of the Dominican Fathers, today seat of the Archivio di Stato, at via S.Agata 2.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 390
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.18
- Map
Date
2nd century CE or beginning of 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 225)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Aphrodito (LGPN V3A: 37802) is a rare female name, most commonly found in northern Greece / Macedonia. Mimas copies the Greek word μιμάς designating a mime actor. Mime, a highly successful form of popular, comic drama, had its first real success in fifth-century BC Sicily, and was very popular in Rome and Italy throughout the later Republic and Imperial period. Ancient mime has however only come down to us in fragments. The genre flourished in the Hellenistic east also, and Aphrodito’s name suggests that she may have come from the eastern Mediterranean to practice her art in Sicily and Italy.
For online Italian edition see EpiCUM420
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491539
- EDR: 139551
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900368
- PHI: -
- 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 10.7046
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 59
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 51
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Daria Spampinato
- Salvatore Cristofaro
- Kalle Korhonen
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Victoria Fendel
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025