ISic001310: Fragment of an epitaph
- ID
- ISic001310
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: lapis ΚΩΜΩ; Kaibel: ΚΩΜΥ (e.g. Κώμυλος); Korhonen: Κωμω[---] (e.g. Κώμων or Κωμῳδίων)
- lines.1-2: Kaibel, Korhonen: [πα]|τρὶ
- line.2: Korhonen: Τολο[---] (e.g. (Π)Τολομαῖος)
- line.3: Kaibel, Korhonen: Ἀκτιακὴ [--- ἔζησεν]; lapis: ΑΚΤΙΑΚΑ[---]
- line.4: Kaibel, Korhonen: ἐξή[κοντα]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a white marble plaque, intact on the top and on the left, damaged on the right and below.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 11 cm, width: 10.5 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 12-16mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not registeredmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded; probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania ,
- Autopsy
- Observed by Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari.
- Map
Date
1st century CE or first half of 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 150)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Although the text is fragmentary, it is possible to assume that the epitaph consisted of two main sentences, the first with the name of the deceased in dative followed by the dedicants in the nominative form (for lack of space, as Korhonen [2004: 200] observes, the verb ἐποίησαν may have been omitted), the second with the indication of the age of the deceased. According to Korhonen, the deceased was Κωμω[---] πατήρ: it must be pointed out that the indication of the fatherhood is found especially when the father is the dedicant and the son the deceased (see IG 14.476 = ISic001299). The name of the second dedicant was Ἀκτιακά (NB, contra Kaibel and Korhonen, final A is clearly visible, not Η, even though the name is not attested in this form), whereas the first dedicant was probably Τολομαῖος: for this form due to the influence of the Latin Tolomaeus, see Solin (1982: 231-232).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492915
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101680
- PHI: 140802
- PHI: 316212
- 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 14.0487
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 72
- Discussion
- Heikki Solin, Die griechischen Personennamen in Rom : ein Namenbuch. Völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, vol. 1, Auctarium. Series nova 2 (Berlin, New York, 2003), at 231-232
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 200
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/9/2023