ISic000995: Epitaph for Tertyllanos
- ID
- ISic000995
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- rock-cut tomb
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Rizzone, except for line 1 ;
- line.1: Wessel, Rizzone: ὀπεθανεν
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- rock-cut tomb
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 21 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Not measured: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cava d'Ispica
- Provenance found
- From Cava d'Ispica
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 25
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd or 4th century CE? (AD 201 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text is currently unlocated (the Siracusa inventory states that it was transferred to Lentini Museum). Rizzone 2016 after Clarke 2014 demonstrates that the text comes from Cava Ispica, and not from Siracusa. The text requires fresh consideration, as both the surviving transcriptions from autopsy by Hoare in the 18th (see Clarke) and Orsi in the 19th centuries favour the reading proposed by Fuhrer for lines 3-4.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492622
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102149
- PHI: 140473
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9528
- « 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 2016.0621
- 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 14.0175
- 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 133 no. 151
- Joseph Führer, Forschungen zur Sicilia sotterranea (München: Verlag der k.Akademie, 1897), at 145 (815)
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 313
- S. Clarke, Il fascino della Cava. La storia dei Viaggiatori Inglesi a Cava Ispica (Modica, 2014), at 28 (second column, fourth entry)
- Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «Una sinagoga a Cava Ispica», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 234–38, at 234-238
- 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. 90
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
- 6/9/2021