ISic001352: Epitaph for Euploutos
- ID
- ISic001352
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs; note that modern repainting is misleading / erroneous in some letters.;
- line.1: κ[ῖτε Wessel
- line.2: Amico, Kaibel: ΕΥΠΑΘΥΤ; Kirchhof: Εὐπάθτ[ος; Ferrua: Εὔπλους; Wessel: Εὐπᾶ θυάτηρ ζήσασα; Korhonen: Εὔπλουτ[ος
- line.3: Ferrua: δεκ[απέντε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque with irregular sides, damaged on the right and lower right corner and set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 0.5-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 15-22 mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 258
- Autopsy
- Observed by Amico and Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI, 66).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This short Christian epitaph has the traditional formula ἔνθαδε κεῖται followed by the name of the deceased and his age (see Korhonen 2004: 105-107). The name has been restored in different ways: from Kirchhof’s reading Εὐπάθητος (palaeographically implausible and not otherwise attested, and based upon the misleading overpainting) to Wessel’s reading Εὐπᾶ θυγάτηρ ζήσασα (palaeographically implausible), from Ferrua’s reading Εὔπλους to Korhonen’s reading Εὔπλουτος. Even if Εὔπλους is better attested (perhaps also in another inscription from Catania, IG 14.452), Εὔπλουτος seems more probable considering the shape of the last letter at l. 2 (see NSA 1895, p. 235 Euploutus, Capri, 1st cent. CE).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492965
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101730
- PHI: 140854
- PHI: 316266
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 275
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9502
- 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 14.0533
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 222 no.108
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 1357
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 184
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/31/2022