ISic001304: Epitaph for Ioulia Domitia
- ID
- ISic001304
- 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;
- line.1: lapis: Ο
- line.3: lapis: ΕΠΟΙΗΣΛΝ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 25.5 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 15-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Described as 'found in the city of Catania, by Torremuzza
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 294
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI.102)
- Map
Date
From the second half of the 1st cent. to the end of the 2nd cent. CE(Korhonen) (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The structure of the epitaph is the most common for pagan epitaphs, with the invocation to the underworld spirits, the name of the deceased in nominative and his/her age, the names of the dedicant (in this case, the parents, who are not named, see also IG 14.483 = ISic001306) and the dedication verb in the aorist form (Korhonen 2004: 85-86). The nomen Δομιτία from the gens Domitia may have spread especially since the reign of Nero: from prosopography and palaeography, therefore, the inscription can be dated from the mid-1st century CE to the end of the 2nd century CE.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492909
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101674
- PHI: 140796
- PHI: 316224
- 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. 32
- 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 159 no. 35
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5704
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 346 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 14.0481
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 98
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/17/2022