ISic000704: Funerary inscription of Gaius Iulius Eutychus
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 4 cm
Material
- Description
- Coarse-grained, banded, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Proconnesian, Thasian-3. Digital microscopy: indistinguishable fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Parian-2,Parian-3,Parian-4,Proconnesian,Thasian-3
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found during construction of the cinema Olimpia (now a MacDonald’s restaurant), in Piazza Stesicoro in the late 1940s. Now on display in the 'Voci di Pietra exhibitioni, no.21
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- 169
- Autopsy
- photographed, but without formal autopsy
- Map
Date
Second half of 1st century — 2nd century CE (AD 51 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Whether Gaius Iulius Eutychus was a freedman (former slave) or freeborn we cannot tell, but the absence of a father’s name perhaps suggests the former. The Greek name Εὐτύχης (‘good fortune’) is very common, in Sicily and across the Greek world. The inscription follows a very standard form for Latin epitaphs, although the use of interpuncts is excessive and is relatively unusual in appearing at the start and end of lines, including therefore mid-word/name (start of line 3).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175766
- EDR: 081509
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100269
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 1989.0341g
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 170 no.37 fig.39
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 97
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/23/2025