ISic001348: Epitaph for Aurelios Restoutos and Zosime

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
ISic001348
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photographs;
  • 1: Ferrua, Korhonen: ((Chi-rho)); Kaibel: Μ(ᾶρκος)
  • 2: Franz: Ῥεστ[ιτ]οῦτος
  • 4: Franz: ἠγοράσαμεν; Kaibel, Wessel, Korhonen: ἠγοράσομεν (“mixto imperfecto et aoristo ortum” Kaibel, see also IG 14.96)
  • 5: Franz: ἰίων; Kaibel, Wessel, Korhonen: ἰείων
  • 6: Franz: ν βάσιν; Kaibel suggested in apparatus ἐν πᾶκι? and Wessel ἐν .ac (see also ἐν πάκης in IGCVO 602); Ferrua [ἠμι]ν ἔνβασιν; Korhonen [ἠμι]ν [?] ἔνβασιν (but also τὴ]ν is possible)

Physical description

Support

Description
Marble plaque damaged on the left corners and set in plaster in modern times.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 20.5 cm, width: 22.5 cm, depth: 0.5-3.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-6: 10-25mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Found in 1740 “in via, quae ad S. Agata suburbium ducit” (Amico) and stored in Museo S. Nicolò Arena “ex dono Ignatii Rizzari”.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 303
Autopsy
Observed by Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, now in Magazzino del Cortile, collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI, 111).
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Date

4th century CE or first half of 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 450)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

This is a marble plaque and not a sarcophagus, which must have served to mark a “loculus”, according to the interpretation that J. and L. Robert (BE 1964 nr. 631) gave for a similar inscription from Catania, RAC 8 (1931) 122-25 = ISic001547. This inscription attests to the purchase of the tomb by the deceased who are buried in it: the names of the deceased are followed by the verb ἀγοράω, an expression indicating that the purchase was made at their own expense (ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων) and by the object (for ἔνβασις as the tomb, see AE 1996.0792 = ISic001423 and Ferrua 1958: 172). It is possible that there was a reflexive pronoun in the lacuna of l. 6, as in other cases where the deceased purchased the grave for himself: IMusCatania 229 = ISic001628. For the registration of the purchase of the tomb in Christian epitaphs, see Führer and Schultze (1907: 12-15) and Korhonen (2004: 108-110). The cognomen of the deceased must have been Restitutus but for such a form, see ICUR 19782. The name of the woman, Ζωσίμη, is attested in other inscriptions of the city (CIL 10.7016 = ISic000300, IMusCatania 165 = ISic001649) and more in general of Sicily (LGPN 3A: 190).

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