ISic001278: Fragment of a verse epigram? (lost)
- ID
- ISic001278
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Carrera. Kaibel refrains from attempting to restore;
- 2: Carrera: ΑΜΕΝΟSΤΗΣ
- 4: Carrera: ΚΑΤΕRΧΟΙ
- 5: Carrera: ΙΕRΟΝΕΙ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Carrera as a small piece of marble, approximately one hand in height, broken on the sides and below (but therefore intact along the upper edge?). The text described as somewhat damaged.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Carrera reports five lines of Greek letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Carrera prints lunate sigma (and can print standard four bar sigma, so lunate should be understood). However the use of Latin S in line 2 and Latin R in lines 4 and 5 are presumably typographic errors / transliterations?
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the last days of April 1638 during excavation of foundations for new building of the Church of S. Giovanni Battista, Catania; Carrera describes as being placed on the wall of the Loggia in Catania, with other inscriptions, but subsequent authors did not see it and it seems to be lost.
Current location
Lost.
Date
later Roman period? (AD 201 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
As Kaibel observes, this is almost certainly a verse epigram of some sort; presumably of the later Roman period, perhaps third or fourth century CE. All editions derive directly or indirectly from Carrera.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492883
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101647
- PHI: 140768
- Printed editions
- Pietro Carrera, Delle Memorie Historiche della Città di Catania spiegate in tre volumi. Volume primo., vol. 1, 3 voll. (Catania: Giovanni Rossi, 1639), at 288
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 253 no. 9
- 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 264 cl.18 no.15
- 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 282 c.18 no.15
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 384 nο. 12
- CIG Franz (1853) at 5649g
- 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 454
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/9/2024