ISic001292: Epitaph for Grapte’s husband
- ID
- ISic001292
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- 1: Ferrua: e.g. Κλ(αυδίῳ) Μηνᾷ
- 3-4: Γραπτη from Stevensons’ drawing; Kaibel: Γρα[φικ]ὴ (?)
- 4: Kaibel, Ferrua: σύμβιος; Korhonen suggests also συμβίῳ (even if less probably than σύμβιος)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of marble plaque. The right fragment is damaged at the top, left and lower right corner, the left fragment is lost, registered by Stevenson and joined with the other by Ferrua.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 20-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 309
- Autopsy
- No data
- 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 (less common in Catania) formula of the name of the deceased in dative with the indication of the age and the name of the dedicant in the nominative (for another example in Catania, see IG 14.504 = ISic001325 and Korhonen 2004: 87). Σύμβιος is referred to the wife of the deceased, who is responsible for the realization of the tomb (less probable is the integration συμβί[ῳ], since the deceased is already qualified through ἀνδρί): the name Γράπτη is attested in Latin inscriptions of South Italy dated to the first imperial age (LGPN 3A: 103, see CIL 10.2290, 10.3090). The name of the deceased in the lacuna ends in -νᾶς.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492896
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101661
- PHI: 140782
- PHI: 316220
- Printed editions
- 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 14.0468
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 179 no. 42
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 92
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/16/2022