ISic001359: Funerary inscription for Kallistos and Eukarpia
- ID
- ISic001359
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 30.2 cm, depth: 3.5-3.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Paint in the lettters, but probably modern, and at least one letter (end of line 1) is omitted in the painting, as is sigma in ligature in line 2.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in Catania (precise location unknown), shortly after 1705.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 244
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.29
- Map
Date
3rd century CE (?) (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The letter forms (e.g. rhomboid shapes and Σ not Ϲ for sigma) suggest a date not later than the third century BC; but the final phrase is typical of Christian inscriptions, which implies that this is one of the earliest Christian texts from Catania. Kallistos is a common name, although rare in Sicily; Eukarpia is less common generally, but well attested in eastern Sicily. The paint is a modern addition and misses several of the less well-preserved letter strokes
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492973
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101739
- PHI: 140863
- PHI: 316260
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9488
- 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 14.0540
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.51
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 592
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 178
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 9/17/2023