ISic001329: Epitaph
- ID
- ISic001329
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.1: Kaibel: Τίμη; Ferrua: Τιμη[σίθεος; Korhonen: Τιμή
- lines.1-2: Kirchhoff read ΠΟΙΩ which Ferrua (1941) corrected in ΠΟΙΗ (ἐ|ποίη[σε) but a Μ is clearly legible. Later, Ferrua (1989) suggested the supplement Ποιμ[ένιος]
- line.3: Ferrua: ἑαυτ[ῷ]; Kaibel, Korhonen ἑαυτ[οῖς]
- lines.4-5: Kaibel: τὸ[ν τόπον] (scil. ἠγόρασαν)]; Ferrua: το[ῖς ἰδίο]|[ις πᾶσιν]; Korhonen: το[ῖς ἰδίοις]|[ἐποίησαν?]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of marble plaque, preserving the upper left corner, missing below and to the right; part of the lower left margin was previously preserved / seen by earlier editors.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 10 cm, width: 10.5 cm, depth: 1.7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 15-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- Observed by Amico in Museo Biscari and by Kaibel (who saw more of it than is now preserved); later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari.
- Map
Date
Second half of 3rd century CE or 4th century CE (AD 250 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The structure of the epitaph is influenced by Latin epigraphy (fecit sibi et suis) and recurs often (but not exclusively) in Christian epitaphs: for this reason, Ferrua believed that the epitaph was Christian. The formula is used to indicate the dedicant, who is not yet dead, but the verb ζάω is often omitted (see Korhonen 2004: 88-89). According to Kaibel, followed by LGPN 3A: 429, Τίμη, attested in the imperial age also in SEG 31.1327A, is the name of the first deceased, whereas Τιμησίθεος suggested by Ferrua is not attested in that age. The second deceased could have been a Ποιμήν or a Ποιμένιος (as Ferrua suggested): the latter is attested in Christian age by literary sources. On the names, see Solin 1982: 1030 and 1256.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9512
- 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 14.0508
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 243 no.141
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.443
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 199
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/31/2022