ISic001318: Epitaph for Peskennis
- ID
- ISic001318
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- 3: Franz corrected the phonetic spelling in Καλάτυχος, but Korhonen thinks of a stonecutter’s error for Καλλίτυχος (attested also in Sicily: LGPN 3A: 235)
- 4: Amico, Torremuzza, Franz: ϙ; Ferrara, Kaibel, Korhonen: ο;
- Amico, Torremuzza, Ferrara, Franz: δ; Kaibel, Korhonen: γ
- 6: ΓΛΜΙΚΗΙΧΝΔΤΙ lapis; Torremuzza: γαμικὴ γιλυκυτάτη; Ferrara; Korhonen: γαμικὴ ἀνδρί; Kaibel: τ(ῷ) ἀνδρί (less probable τἀνδρί)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, set in plaster in modern times; irregular right side, possibly damaged/broken off.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 19 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 10-35 mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found during the building of the house of Pietro Tedesco Baron of Villermosa “extra Stesichori portam” in 1726.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 274
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in magazzino del Cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini, formerly sala VI, 82.
- Map
Date
2nd century CE or first half of 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph contains the traditional formula Θ(εοῖς) Κ(αταχθονίοις), the name of the deceased, the indication of the age (with ζάω in the aorist form) and a second sentence with the name of the dedicant and the relationship of the deceased with the dedicant in dative. The cognomen of the wife is attested in another inscription from Catania dated to the imperial age, CIL 10.7063 = ISic000347. Both the deceased and the dedicant seem to belong to the Roman gens Pescennia. The text shows multiple diversions from standard orthography, and an extensive and irregular use of hederae.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492923
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101688
- PHI: 140811
- PHI: 316233
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 257
- 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 140 n. 37
- 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 147 n. 41
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5719
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 350 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 14.0496
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 116
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/22/2022