ISic001343: Epitaph for Agathe
- ID
- ISic001343
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based photographs;
- 2: Kirchhoff: ἐτν
- 3: Kirchhoff: ἐτε]λ[εύτησεν τῇ; Kaibel, Wessel: λα (vel μ); Torremuzza, Ferrara, Libertini, Ferrua; Korhonen: μ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque slightly damaged on the upper left corner, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 15 cm, depth: 1-4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 10-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found (dug up) in 1768 in Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 266
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza in Museo Biscari (and re-published by Libertini as if it were unpublished), later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI 74).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The structure of the epitaph is frequent in the Christian age. The name of the deceased recurs in some Paleochristian epitaphs from Catania, such as IG 14.524 = ISic001344, IG 14.525 = ISic000964, IG 14.552 = ISic001371. Kirchhoff’s supplement at l. 3 ἐτε]λ[εύτησεν τῇ does not seem to be necessary (moreover, there is not a lacuna at this line): even if the verb τελευτάω is frequent in this formula after the indication of the years and before the indication of the day of death, a similar structure without the verb τελευτάω recurs also in IGCVO 1380 (Rome). The indication of the day of death as dies natalis is common in Christian epitaphs.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492951
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101716
- PHI: 140840
- PHI: 316254
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 242 no.9
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 258 no.9
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9480
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 366 no.4
- 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 14.0523
- Guido Libertini, Il Museo Biscari (Milan: Casa editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tuminelli, 1930), at 318 no.9
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 1379
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.434
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 172
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/31/2022