ISic001264: Funerary epitaph for Stateios Eutyches
- ID
- ISic001264
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque irregularly cut back on each side. Currently set in plaster.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 27 cm, depth: Somewhere between 1.5 and 5.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- six lines of Greek letters with a consistent left margin, and a slight gap between lines 1-3 and lines 4-6.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Torremuzza 1784, who states that it was dug up in Taormina, and then transferred to the Museo Biscari (so also Ferrara). Now in the Museo Civico di Catania
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 243
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Second half of 2nd — 3rd century CE (Korhonen) (AD 150 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is unclear why Kaibel states that Torremuzza's edition (1784) is derivative from Ferrara (1829).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492871
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101633
- PHI: 140753
- PHI: 316306
- Printed editions
- 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.140
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5649b
- 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 14.0439
- Giovanni Rizzo, «Iscrizioni tauromenitane», Archivio Storico Messinese 4 (1904): 107–22, at 113
- Guido Libertini, Il Museo Biscari (Milan: Casa editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tuminelli, 1930), at 318 no.7
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 241
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 227 G10
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Alex Antoniou
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/30/2024