ISic001335: 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
ISic001335
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photographs;
  • line.1: Kirchhoff: ἐ]ποίησ[αν; Korhonen: ἐ]ποίησ[ε
  • line.2: Kirchhoff: ε]ὐσεβ[εῖς; Kaibel: ἐ]υσεβ[εστατ---

Physical description

Support

Description
Lower fragment of marble plaque, broken to left, above and right, set in plaster in modern times.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 14.5 cm, width: 12.5 cm, depth: 1-5 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Regular letters, Ε and Σ lunate.

Letter heights
Lines 1-3: 17-20mm
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, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 279
Autopsy
Observed by Amico in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI 87).
Map

Date

Second half of 1st — end 2nd century CE (AD 51 - AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The epitaph is fragmentary: Korhonen (2004: 243) suggested two possible formulae, the first with the name of the deceased in dative followed by [ἐ]ποίησ[εν υἱὸς ε]υσεβή[ς] (see also IG 14.527 = ISic001346), the second with the name of the dedicant in nominative and the dative of the deceased, not named (e.g. [ὁ δεῖνα ἐ]ποίησ[εν υἱῷ ε]ὐσεβ<ε>ῖ, [ὃς ἔ]ζησε ἔ[τη κτλ.]). The Korhonen rejects Kaibel’s reading ε]ὐσεβ[εστάτ because he reads a vertical stroke after Β, which could only have been an Η or a Ι. ε]ὐσεβ[ at l. 2 could also be not a form of the adjective but a proper name, such as Εὐσεβία or Εὐσέβιος (LGPN 3A: 176). However, since we are not sure how much space is missing on the left and right, it is also possible that the deceased had a different degree of kinship ([ὁ δεῖνα ἐ]ποίησ[εν συμβίῳ ε]ὐσεβῖ, see also IG 14.492 = ISic001314 or IG 14.495 = ISic001317).

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Citation and editorial status

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