ISic001311: Epitaph for Libios
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph. Less survives of left side than when seen by Ferrara and Kaibel. ;
- line.1: Ferrara: Λίβιος; Kaibel: Λίβιο[ς]
- lines.3-4: Ferrara: ἄμεμ-|πτος; Kaibel: ἄμεμ-|π[τ]ος
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Six joining fragments of a marble plaque, damaged on the left.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 23.5 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 1.1 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular letters, Α with upper serif, lunate Ε and Σ, Κ with arms detached from the upright.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 22-38mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, probably Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- 905
- Autopsy
- Observed by Ferrara and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, in a more complete state, later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore, collezione Biscari, formerly sala IX, 79.
- Map
Date
1st century — first half of 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 150)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph has the traditional structure with the name of the deceased, the epithets χρηστὸς καὶ ἄμεμπτος (for which, see Korhonen 2004: 84) and the indication of the age expressed by ζάω in the aorist form. The name Λίβιος can be a Greek transliteration for the Latin Livius (see Buszard 2018: 112-113).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492916
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101681
- PHI: 140803
- PHI: 316227
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 390 n. 1
- 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 488
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 103
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/5/2025