ISic001314: Funerary inscription for Myrtale
- ID
- ISic001314
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31.6 cm, width: 29.4 cm, depth: 1.22 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- 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 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 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 492
- 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
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021