ISic001354: Funerary inscription for Eutychianos
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo checked against photograph; Kaibel followed Kirchoff's reedition of the report by Alessi ;
- line.3: ΠΡΟΘΕ Alessi
- line.5: ὑπ(ατείᾳ) IG XIV 535, Agnello; IMusPalermo; ὑπ(ατίᾳ) CIG IV 9478; ΥΠΑΤΙΣ Alessi
- line.6: ΒΑΣΣΥ Κ Alessi;
- ΙΦΛΙΠΠΟΥ lapis
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, rounded at the corners.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.5 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The letters are narrow and elongated, becoming progressively smaller and shorter in the final lines. E and Σ are square, while Ω is cursive. Numerous ligatures and abbreviation marks are present.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 5-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina medium certainty
- Provenance found
- From the Convento del Carmine, reported by Alessi as one of several find in the years preceding 1833
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 8727
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
408 CE (CE 408 - CE 408)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
The epitaph opens at l. 1 with the standard formula ἐνθάδε κεῖται, followed by the name of the deceased, Eutychianos (for the name in Sicily, see CIL X 7006 = ISic000005; LGPN IIIA, 178). The expression ζήσας ἐν | Χ(ριστ)ῷ (ll. 2–3) is also attested in other Christian epitaphs (cf. I.Pal.Tertia Ia 258, ll. 3–4) and serves to emphasize the deceased's principal virtue, namely that of being a believer (Agnello 1953, 99). At ll. 3–5, the date of death is introduced by the verb τελευτᾷ and is further specified by the consular dating, during the consulship of Anicius Auchenius Bassus and Flavius Philippus, corresponding to AD 408. Below the text was a symbol that has been interpreted either as an ivy leaf or as an inverted D, representing the Latin abbreviation depositus (Manni Piraino 1973, 31).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Giuseppe Alessi, «III. Giuseppe Alessi al chiarissimo segretario dell’instituto archeologico, salute.», Giornale di scienze, lettere e arti per la Sicilia 42, fasc. 126 (1833): 225–35, http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/giornale/UFI0049392/1833/T.42/00000257, at 228
- Giuseppe Alessi, «Scavi di Catania», Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, fasc. 12 (1833): 172–76, at 173
- E. Curtius, A. Kirchhoff, and H. Roehl, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum IV. Pars XXXIX. Inscriptiones locorum incertorum. Pars XL. Inscriptiones christianae. Indices (1877)., vol. 4, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1877), at 9478
- 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 535
- Antonio Ferrua, «Note di epigrafia cristiana siracusana», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 4–5 (1939 1938): 19–37, at 29
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.94
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 9
- SEG at (1976-1977), 26.1121
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 12 no.34
- SEG at (1986), 36.0841
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026