ISic001279: Edict of Flavius Felix Eumathus regarding the Thermae Achillianae
- ID
- ISic001279
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Korhonen
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A very wide text laid out across multiple marble slabs of differing widths, of which 8 pieces are preserved (originally 6, but two have become further fragmented over time). The slabs were most likely displayed on the facade of the building to which they relate.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29.5-30.3 cm, width: greater than 469.1 cm, depth: 2.3-4.9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text over four lines. The fourth line is shorter than the other three and ends with a vacat. The letters are broadly regular and neatly cut, but the sizing and spacing varies considerably across the four lines.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 44-62mm
- Interlinear heights
- Lines 1-4: 9-27mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found c.1702 in the remains of the baths situated under the west end of the Duomo of Catania
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 265
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.9
- Map
Date
434 CE (reporting an edict from the consuls of 433) (AD 434 – AD 434)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
The word πήσας is a hapax. It is plausibly explained by Manganaro (1958-1959: 28 n.94) as being a calque in Greek of the Latin word pensum, signifying a weight of a fixed quantity. Manganaro additionally observes that in Sicilian dialect the word 'pisa' signifies a specific weight (4 kg) of flour or salt, and suggests that in this text a 'pesa' would be a cord of wood of approx. 5 kg.
The word εὐκαθωσιώτου is also rare: as demonstrated by Manganaro and Korhonen it appears to be a synonym for καθοσιωμένος equivalent to devotissimus.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5694
- « 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 2010.0608
- « 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 1959.0026
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 2011.0732
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1959.0541
- 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 14.0455
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 60.1010
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 43.0623
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0919
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni latine e greche di Catania tardo-imperiale», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale ser.4 vol.11-12 (1959 1958): 5–30, at 24-30 no.5 fig.7
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Greco nei pagi e latino nelle città della Sicilia romana tra I e VI sec. d.C.», in l’epigrafia del villaggio, a c. di A. Calbi, A. Donati, e G. Poma (Faenza, 1993), 543–94, at 554 n.26
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 11
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Fontane ed edifici termali nella Catina “ bilingue ” tardo-antica e l’editto di Eumathios del 434 d. C.», Travaux et mémoires du Centre de recherches d’histoire et civilisation byzantines 16 (2010): 513–31, at 523-531
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021