ISic000862: I.Sicily inscription 000862
- ID
- ISic000862
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- sarcophagus
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after IG, Orsi, and autopsy of fragment (a)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- sarcophagus
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: 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
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Bembo in the church of San Martino in the 16th century, but the surviving fragments were found in the pavement of the Duomo (frag. a) in 1884 and near the junction of via Roma and via Minerva (frag. b) in 1915.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- Autopsy of frag(a) by Prag, 15.09.2018
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
As originally reported in the antiquarian tradition (Bembo, Metellus from correspondents, and in Smet), this inscription was originally part of a large sarcophagus, with columns at the corners; the front bore reliefs of a man and a woman, with the inscription in between and beneath Charon in a boat. In the 16th century it was used for the burial of a bishop, in the church of San Martino, after which it seems to disappear from the record, and the versions in Castelli, CIG and IG 14.45 all derive from the earlier antiquarian record. Subsequently, Orsi recorded a fragment (b) among the material which he catalogued on his arrival at the museum of Siracusa in 1888, recorded as inventory no.135, and which he published in NSA 1889, and which Kaibel reported directly in the addenda to IG 14, at number 59a. Ferrua, writing in 1940, astutely observed that the fragment(b) recorded by Orsi (described in his Taccuini, vol. 1, p.43, and in NSA, as having been found in two pieces in the pavement of the Duomo in Siracusa in 1884) must be the lower left part of this text. Independently of this, Orsi reported another fragmentary text (fragment (a)) found in excavations on via Minerva in 1915 almost at the junction with via Roma (i.e. immediately behind the Duomo), which he published in MAL 1918, and which is now in the archaeological museum with inventory number 37556. It is to the credit of Kalle Korhonen (2002, 78-79 n.21) to have recognised that this second fragment belongs to the first line of this text also. The proximity of the two fragments and the clear reworking for re-use of fragment (a) make their belonging to the same original monument not implausible, although the re-use is at a little distance from the church of San Martino near the southern end of Ortygia. To date, fragment (b), inv.135, has not been located in the museum, but fragment (a), inv. 37556 has been.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644911
- TM: 644954
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 140339
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.14 no.21
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.14 no.23
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5412
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 369
- 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 14.0045
- 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 14.0059a
- Paolo Orsi, «Gli scavi intorno a l’Athenaion di Siracusa negli anni 1912-1917», Monumenti Antichi 25 (1918): 353–754, at 611 fig.206
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 52.0934
- Antonio Ferrua, «Due pseudoepigrafi cristiane di Siracusa», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 17 (1940): 276–78, at 276-277
- Kalle Korhonen, ‘Three Cases of Greek/Latin Imbalance in Roman Syracuse’, in Greek Romans and Roman Greeks. Studies in Cultural Interaction, ed. E.N. Ostenfeld (Aarhus, 2002), 70–80, at 73 with n.21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/2/2021