ISic001316: Epitaph for Bipsanios Zosimos
- ID
- ISic001316
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.3: Ferrara, Bertucci: ΚΑΛΕΣΩΣΗΛΕ (sic)
- line.4: Torremuzza, Ferrara, Franz: καίρε lapis
- line.5: Ferrara, Bertucci: παροδώιτα (sic)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a marble plaque, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 cm, width: 23.5 cm, depth: 1-6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 18-30 mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Assumed to be from Catania. According to Korhonen, the inscription is not urban since it is not registered in the codex Marucellianus A 77.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 298
- Autopsy
- Observed by Kaibel in Museo del Monastero di San Nicolò l’Arena, later by Korhonen in magazzino del Cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini, formerly sala VI, 106.
- Map
Date
Mid-1st century — end 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph has the traditional structure with the name of the deceased and the indication of the age, with the participle of the verb ζάω. The gentilicium Vipsanius recurs in three inscriptions from Catania: IG 14.495 = ISic001317 (Βειψάνιος Ζώτικος), IMusCatania 146 = ISic003263 (Μ(ᾶρκος) Βειψάνιος Φοῖβος) and CIL 10.7101 = ISic000383 (Vipsanius Atticus). The final address to the passerby has no parallel in the inscriptions of Catania, even if a reference to the passerby is found in the epigram to Rodogoune (IG 14.499 l. 1 = ISic001320 l. 1): especially in this form, παροδεῖτα, it is frequent in funerary epigrams, whereas the greeting to the passerby can be found in Sicily in SEG 38:922 = ISic003078 (Akragas) (and in the antiquarian forgery SEG 52:905 = ISic003560(Trapani)).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492921
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101686
- PHI: 140809
- PHI: 316243
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 167 n. 22
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 177 n. 24
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5707
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 349 n. 2
- Francesco Bertucci, Guida del Monastero dei PP. Benedettini di Catania (Catania, 1846), at 30 n. 4
- 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 14.0494
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 147
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/22/2022