ISic001303: Epitaph for Ioulia Germana
- ID
- ISic001303
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs and Kaibel's transcription;
- line.3: lapis, Ferrara, Kaibel: ΗΕ; Kaibel: η⟨ε⟩ (i.e. suppressed the E); Korhonen: ιε (or κε)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Four joining fragments of a marble plaque, of which the lower corners lost (and currently only two fragments located).,[object Object]
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 16-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not registeredmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 257
- Autopsy
- Observed by Ferrara and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, who saw the lower corners also; later observed by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile e magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI.65).
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE ('La datazione è difficile', Korhonen 2004: 214) (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The structure of the epitaph is the traditional one for pagan epitaphs, with the name of the deceased (and an attribute), his/her age, the name of the dedicant, a noun describing the deceased (which often expresses the degree of kinship with the dedicant) in dative and the dedication verb (ποιέω in the aorist form), for which see Korhonen (2004: 85-87). The attribute θεοφιλής attributed to the deceased is uncommon in pagan Greek epigraphy, more frequent in Christian epigraphy in the superlative form as an attribute of bishops and emperors.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492908
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101673
- PHI: 140795
- PHI: 316226
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 390 no. 3
- 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 14.0480
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 100
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/17/2022