ISic001291: Epitaph for Galates
- ID
- ISic001291
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.6: Torremuzza, Ferrara: Πριμιγένη; Franz, Korhonen: Πριμιγένης; Kaibel: Πριμιγένις
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque set in plaster in modern times, with the upper left corner rounded and the lower right corner slightly damaged.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 17-23mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- According to Ferrara, the inscription was found in 1760 in Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 273
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, more recently by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI.81)
- Map
Date
Second half of 1st century CE or 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph presents the traditional formula with the invocation to the underworld spirits, the name of the deceased, his age and the name of the dedicant (Korhonen 2004: 86-87). Γαλάτης recurs in the Latin form in inscriptions of South Italy (LGPN 3a: 96), whereas Πριμιγένης seems to be a contamination between the Greek form Πρωτογένης and the Latin form Primigenius (Solin 2005: 170). This inscription is classified in LGPN 3a: 376 under the name Πριμογένις. Πριμογένης recurs in another inscription from Catania, IG 14.546 = ISic001365, and in an inscription from Syracuse, IGCVO 1339 = MARPO inv.15591 (in both the form is Πριγομένης, with an inversion of μ and γ).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492895
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101660
- PHI: 140781
- PHI: 316219
- Printed editions
- 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 151 no. 29
- 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 158 no. 32
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5701
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 354 no. 2
- 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 14.0467
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 90
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/16/2022