ISic001328: Epitaph

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
ISic001328
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photographs;
  • line.2: Kaibel, Korhonen: Σωτ[ῆρ? ---]

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of an opisthographic marble plaque; the upper left corner is preserved, broken to right and below. On the reverse is a more recent Latin epitaph (IMusCatania 156 = ).
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 10 cm, width: 12 cm, depth: 2.3 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-2: 19-22mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded, but assumed to be from Catania (“visto che si tratta di un frammento poco notevole, con un’iscrizione greca su una faccia, e una latina sull’altra, sembra preferibile la provenienza locale” Korhonen 2004: 242).

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania
Autopsy
Observed by Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari.
Map

Date

3rd century CE (AD 201 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The invocation to the subterranean deities is followed by the name of the deceased, probably Σωτῆρ, Σώταιρος, Σώτειρα, Σωτηρία, Σωτηρίδας, Σωτηρίς (attested in an inscription from Catania dated to the 3rd-5th cent. CE: IG 14.550 = ISic001369), Σωτήριχος (attested in an inscription from Catania dated to the imperial age: CIL 10.7054 = ISic000338): on the names, see LGPN 3A: 417-419.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
10/31/2022