ISic001355: Funerary inscription for Eutychios
- ID
- ISic001355
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20.7 cm, width: 18.5 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-8: 13-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found c.1715 in the cloister of the monastery of S.Agata, buried inside a lead urn containing ashes and burnt bones.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 719
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.34
- Map
Date
4th century CE or first half of 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 450)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Eutychios is a fairly common name, but rare in Sicily. The text is Christian, as indicated by the phrase enthade kite and the chi-rho symbol at the end, but the initial phrase is strongly Jewish in form. Some have suggested that Eutychios was Jew who converted to Christianity, but it is simpler to see this as a good example of the extensive interaction and influence between the Christian and Jewish communities in ancient Catania.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492969
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101735
- PHI: 140859
- PHI: 316269
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9494
- 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 14.0536
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1243
- Antonio Ferrua, «Osservazioni sulle iscrizioni cristiane catanesi», Bollettino Storico Catanese 3 (1938): 60–74, at 73
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.48
- J.-B. Frey and B. Lifshitz, Corpus of Jewish Inscriptions, vol. 1 (New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1975), at 1(2).650
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.441
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 799
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 187
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agod
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021