ISic000711: I.Sicily inscription 000711
- ID
- ISic000711
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Manganaro 1988+1989: [--- dedicatione statuae suae C]n Seius Agatho; Ferrua: [--- marit]us eius Agatho
- 2: Manganaro: [municipibus ----- HS ---]LMN etc.; Ferrua: [vixit annis] L m(e)n. II semis, de-
- 3: Manganaro: [dit ut quotannis ex us(uris) epulentur ter]tio die m(ensis) Ianuarii; Ferrua: [-posit(us) deci]mo die m(ensis) Ianuari i[nd.]
- 4: Manganaro, Ferrua: not observed
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thick slab of a fine dense grey stone. Lower edge intact. Possibly part of the right edge also intact. Broken left and above, and at the extreme lower right corner; however the cut-away lower right appears to be respected by the text, and the edge has the same finish as the other edges, so may be original. Edges and rear finished roughly. Some mortar preserved on right edge. Original width was greater than 30 cm.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 4.6-5.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, with vacat below; the trace of a letter below line 3 respects the exact distances between the other lines. Text runs at a slightly offset angle to the two edges.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 32mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 9mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 9mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- From the necropolis excavated c.1960 on via Dottor Consoli / via Androne
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico di Catania
- Autopsy
- 2015.20.10
Date
Letter types, esp. the G, sugg. c. 200 CE (so Manganaro; Ferrua dates later) (AD 100 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Ferrua records the result of a rapid transcription made in 1951 (and the apograph in fig.3e is accurate). Manganaro resolves the fragment as recording an act of euergetism, in the form of a funerary donation, while Ferrua attempts to resolve as a later Roman funerary inscription. The difficulty lies in the abbreviation or numeral in line 2 (contra Ferrua, the supraline extends across the whole of the initial LMN), and whether supralines are here being used for both numerals and abbreviations (clearly for an abbreviation in line 3, but in line 2 the numeral II is not so marked. Manganaro's proposed resolution of "LMN II semis" is followed here, but with reservations. The style of the lettering seems marginally more in keeping with a high quality later Roman funerary inscription (i.e. later than Manganaro's suggested 200 CE). Neither scholar noted the trace of a fourth line. Ferrua's proposal to resolve the final I for I[nd(ictio)] seems unlikely given the form of the letters and the seeming originality of the lower right cutting of the stone.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493947
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 32701134
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 28 no.100 fig.3e
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 46 n.226
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 173 no.44 fig.48
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Timothy Smith
- Last revision
- 1/23/2025