ISic001326: Epitaph for Statilia Theagenis

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001326
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text based on photographs

Physical description

Support

Description: Marble plaque damaged below, set in plaster in modern times.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: 16 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 1-6 cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.unspecified > unspecified

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Letters with serifs: Ε and Σ lunate, Η at l. 2 in smaller size.
Letter heights: Lines 1-3: 20-30mm
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; 300
Autopsy: Observed by Ferrara and Kaibel, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile Collezione Biscari, formerly sala VI 108.
Map

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The epitaph presents the name of the deceased and the indication of her age (the years are assumed to be in a missing fourth line). The gentilicium Στατείλια is also found in the Latin funerary inscription of the 2nd-3rd century CE, CIL 10.7094 = ISic000376. The name Θεαγενίς is not well attested (for the masculine form Θεαγένης attested in South Italy, see LGPN 3A 199). For Θεαγενίς in two urban inscriptions, see Solin 1982: 84.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

10/31/2022