ISic000649: Verse inscription recording building of a nymphaeum
- ID
- ISic000649
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- The restorations proposed by Manganaro are adopted here
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 53 cm, width: 72 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in May 1771 in excavations undertaken by the Prince of Biscari on the northern side of Piazza Dante and the church of S. Nicolò
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 539
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.15
- Map
Date
3rd or possibly early 4rth century CE. Perhaps middle/later 4th century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name of the individual who carried out the work, and is honoured in the text, is lost at the end of line 1. Traces of the acqueduct which brought water into this part of Catania from the south side of Etna survive. Biscari uncovered remains of a complex which it has been suggested is identical with the nymphaeum (fountain house) mentioned in the later Latin text. The fragmentary mosaic of the months preserved in the museum appears to come from the same location. It is possible that this text commemorates the completion/extension of one branch of the acqueduct, and the construction of a nymphaeum at its terminus. Although Latin was the language of public documents, Greek was used occasionally for highly literary texts of this sort, and the two texts provide another illustration of the bilingualism present in Catania at this time.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 653657
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 140767
- PHI: 332860
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5649h
- G. Kaibel, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus conlecta (Berolini: G. Reimer, 1878), at no.599
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5240
- « 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 1959.0025
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1959.0541
- 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 14.0453
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 60.1009
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 44.0738.10
- W. Peek, Griechische Vers-Inschriften. Bd. 1, Grab - Epigramme (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955), at 883
- 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 19-24 no.4 fig.5
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di epigrafia siceliota. I. Per la storia del culto delle divinita orientali in Sicilia», Siculorum Gymnasium 14 (1961): 175–98, at 196
- 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 184 fig.153
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni, epigrafi ed epigrammi in Greco della Sicilia orientale di epoca romana», Mélanges de l’École Francaise de Rome: Antiquité 106, fasc. 1 (1994): 79–118, at 96 no.10 fig.15
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Fontane ed edifici termali nella Catina “ bilingue ” tardo-antica e l’editto di Eumathios del 434 d. C.», Travaux et mémoires du Centre de recherches d’histoire et civilisation byzantines 16 (2010): 513–31, at 516-518 fig.3
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
- 1/19/2021