ISic000932: Funerary inscription for Eutychios

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

Object 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

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

Rubrication, red coloured

Lettering

traces of red paint noted in the inventory

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

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

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 and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 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 115
• 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
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

12/8/2022