ISic001342: Fragment of a funerary inscription
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- ID
- ISic001342
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- No data
- Text type
- funerary
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Apparatus criticus
- lines.2-3: πρεσ]βύτη[ς ἔζησεν] ἔτ(η) ο μῆ(νας) θ CIG III 5732a; ἔζησεν] ἔτ(η) ο μῆ(νας) θ IG XIV 522
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- No data
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded. Observed by Gualtherus "in muro D.Agathe-Veteris Franciscanorum Observantia."
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Roman (CE 1 - CE 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The funerary inscription is too fragmentary to allow a secure reconstruction. However, l. 3 may preserve a reference to the age of the deceased expressed by means of numerals, which are also abbreviated in the funerary inscriptions from Catania (cf. IG XIV 484; IG XIV 525).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492950
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101715
- PHI: 140839
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 49
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5732a
- 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 522
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026