ISic001314: Funerary inscription for Myrtale
- ID
- ISic001314
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31.6 cm, width: 29.4 cm, depth: 1.22 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 16-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the mid-eighteenth century during excavation of foundations for the Collegio di Maria (founded in 1752), outside the Porta Stesicorea (Porta di Aci), on the eastern side of Piazza Stesicoro. The text was found in the same location as inscription (inv. no.393), which references the same man.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 272
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.27
- Map
Date
Probably 2nd century CE (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This epitaph was found together with no.26, which was apparently erected in memory of the same man as set up this text (although it is also possible that they are father and son). The implication is that Myrtale was his first wife and that he remarried (to Euphrosyne) after her death. The differing letter forms and use of Greek numerals indicate that this was engraved by a different stonemason.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492919
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101684
- PHI: 140807
- PHI: 316232
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5717
- 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 14.0492
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 111
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