ISic001308: Funerary inscription for Kornelios Agathemeros
- ID
- ISic001308
- Language
- Ancient Greek with Latin numerals
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 19.5 cm, width: 29 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- 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 et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5695
- 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 14.0485
- 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
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021