ISic001281: Funerary inscription

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ID
ISic001281
Status
draft
Language
Ancient Greek
Object type
plaque
Text type
funerary

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Apparatus criticus

line.1: [Θε]οῖς Χθο[νίοις] Franz (ap. CIG III 5732c); Kaibel (ap. IG XIV 457)
line.2: Ἀγάθη χ[αῖρε] Kaibel (ap. IG XIV 457); ἡ δεῖνα ἀ]γάθη Franz (ap. CIG III 5732c)
line.3: [ἔ]ζησεν [ἔτη ---] Franz (ap. CIG III 5732c); Kaibel (ap. IG XIV 457)

Physical description

Support

Description
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Object type
plaque
Object condition
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Dimensions
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Material

Description
stone
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

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Technique
chiselled
Pigment
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Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
First recorded by Münter

Current location

Place
Catania, Sicilia
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

Imperial period (CE 1 - CE 400)
Evidence
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Text type

funerary

commentary

This epitaph is dedicated to a deceased female, Agathe, and preceeded by an invocation to the Gods of the Underworld, in a less usual form than the more typical Θεοῖς Καταχθονίοις (cf. IG XIV 30 = ISic000847, IG XIV 49 = ISic000866, both from Siracusa). The unabbreviated form is found before the Augustan age, but occasionally also after: this seems to be the case, if at l. 2 we read the name Agathe (and not an adjective referred to the deceased, with the name in the lacuna, as Franz ap. CIG III 5732c). Ἀγάθη is a name which recurs in Catania in several palaeochristian epitaphs: IG XIV 523 (= ISic001343), IG XIV 524 (= ISic001344), IG XIV 525 (= ISic000964), IG XIV 552 (ISic001371). The age, expressed in numerals, is lost in the final lacuna.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/3/2026