ISic001281: Funerary inscription
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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
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
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- Technique
- chiselled
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- 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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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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492886
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101650
- PHI: 140771
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5732c
- 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 457
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026