ISic001308: Funerary inscription for Kornelios Agathemeros
- ID
- ISic001308
- Language
- Ancient Greek with Latin numerals
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 19.5 cm, width: 29 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 12-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the mid-eighteenth century during foundation works for the Collegio di Maria (founded in 1752), outside the Porta Stesicorea (Porta di Aci), on the eastern side of Piazza Stesicoro. Found with the inscription no.27, set up by the same man.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 287
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.26
- Map
Date
2nd century CE or first half of 3rd century CE (AD 101 - AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This epitaph was found together with ISic001314 (inv. no.272), which was apparently erected by the same man as is commemorated in this text (although it is also possible that they are father and son). The implication is that Euphrosyne was his second wife, who outlived him. The use of Latin numerals in the middle of the Greek text is a clear indication of the co-existence of the two languages in Catania at this date and the ‘interference’ between them (just as the name Cornelius Agathemeros combines Latin and Greek names also).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492913
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101678
- PHI: 140800
- PHI: 316213
- 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 5695
- 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 485
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 73
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/5/2025