ISic000348: Bilingual funerary inscription for Quintus Domitius
- ID
- ISic000348
- Language
- Latin and Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 32 cm, width: 69 cm, depth: 5.5-7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- 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 et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5705
- 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 10.7064
- 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 14.0472
- 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
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 9/24/2023