ISic000348: Bilingual funerary inscription for Quintus Domitius
- ID
- ISic000348
- Language
- Latin and Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 32 cm, width: 69 cm, depth: 5.5-7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- Rubrication, red coloured
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 27-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Uncertain
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 939
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.22
- Map
Date
Probably 1st century BCE, or early 1st century CE (50 BC - AD 50)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text shows one of the typical differences between Greek and Latin practice: the name Quintus is abbreviated in the Latin version, but written in full in Greek. pius / eusebes could be a third name (cognomen) or just an epithet: the fact that it is translated rather than transliterated, and the fact that pie salve / eusebe chaire is an attested formula in funerary inscriptions (in Latin, specifically in eastern Sicily) suggests it is an epithet. The forms Domitei and peie (for Domiti and pie) suggest the text was written by someone who was primarily a Greek speaker, since it is a Greek tendency to render long Latin i with ei.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491557
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900386
- PHI: 140787
- PHI: 316214
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5705
- 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 7064
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 472
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 49 n.243
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 74
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 9/24/2023