ISic001351: Epitaph for Doxa
- ID
- ISic001351
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.2: Δόξα lapis, Korhonen; Terramuzza: Δόλα; Ferrara, Wessel: Δόζα; Kirchhoff, Kaibel: Δόα; Ferrua: Δοία (= Gemina)
- line.5: Wessel: ὀκτω[ρίων
- line.6: Torremuzza: ..ΛΤΗΩ; Kirchhoff: ἡμέρᾳ ---; Kaibel: fortasse consules fuerunt; Ferrua: ΖΗΣΑΣΑ ΤΗΝΗ; Korhonen: .....Λ..ΙΙ[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque damaged on the right lower corner.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 23.5 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35mm
- Lines 2-6: 8-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably Catania (less possibly, Siracusa)
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 634
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino superior, collezione Biscari (formerly sala VII, 278).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This Christian epitaph has the traditional formula ἔνθαδε κεῖται, the name of the deceased, the age and the date of death indicated by τελευτάω in the present form (see Korhonen 2004: 105-107). The last line is severely damaged and illegible, and Korhonen speculates that it may be a (later) graffito addition. The reading of Korhonen of the name of the deceased, Δόξα, is the only plausible reading, since Ferrua’s reading Δοία (from the Latin Gemina) is not otherwise attested (pace LGPN 3A: 133), nor is Terramuzza’s reading Δόλα and Ferrara’s reading Δόζα (Δόμνα is palaeographically improbable).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492964
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101729
- PHI: 140853
- PHI: 316264
- 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 247 no.23
- 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 264 no.27
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9482
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 391 no.3
- 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 14.0532
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 1360
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.439
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 182
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/31/2022