ISic000932: Funerary inscription for Eutychios
- ID
- ISic000932
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon Orsi and Ferrua;
- 1: Ferrua: Δ(αιμοσιν) Θ(εοῖς) Χ(θονίοις); Kaibel: [Ἐνθά]δε κ[ῖτε]; Orsi and Crispi report three characters, seemingly a lambda, Roman D or a theta, and a chi, at the centre of the line.
- 4: Crispi: IC; Kaibel proposes reading IE after Crispi
- 5: Earlier editors propose reading ΚΑΛ before the month name, but Ferrua is correct in suggesting there is no space and it was probably omitted.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Plaque of marble seemingly damaged above and below
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- over five lines, consistent left margin.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- No details of the original discovery, but reported by Crispi in 1823 as part of material of sig. D. Agostino Gallo, from Taormina, wrongly attributed to Siracusa by Kaibel (and the inventory is agnostic)
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 66
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Christian, late Roman text (AD 301 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Muscolino discusses the likely attribution of this and a number of other pieces, the earliest records of which state that it came from Taormina, but also indicate that the stones were moved to Siracusa early, leading to general attribution to Siracusa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492562
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102089
- PHI: 140413
- Printed editions
- Giuseppe Crispi, «Iscrizioni sepolcrali greche appartenenti all’epoca cristiana, interpetrate ed illustrate», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 4 (1823): 259–73, at 263 no.1
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9465
- 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 14.0115
- V. Strazzulla, Museum epigraphicum: seu inscriptionum Christianarum quae in Syracusanis catacumbis repertae sunt corpusculum, Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia : 3. ser. 3 (Palermo: Lo Statuto, 1897), at no. 56
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 115
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.476
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 287 no.1329
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 231 G18
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p.136
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
- Last revision
- 12/8/2022