ISic001365: Funerary inscription for Primogenes
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Le Blant and IG;
- line.1: l. 1 ριοένη IG XIV 546; ριομένη CIG IV 9490; ΓΙΡΙΓΟΜΕΝΗΣ Amico, Ferrara, Le Blant
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A square slab of white marble.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
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- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate sigma and epsilon
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina medium certainty
- Provenance found
- Found in 1740 in the area of piazza Stesicoro. Described by Le Blant 1856 as in the possession of 'M. l'abbé Lefebvre, curé d'Attichy, pres de Pierrefonds; elle provient du cabinet de M. Provost, de Bresles (Oise.)'; IG notes at one point in the collection of M. Leon Dufourny (cf. ISic000394).
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Current location
- Place
- Attichy, Sicilia
- Repository
- No data
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Christian (CE 301 - CE 600)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
The inscription is Christian, as indicated by the Christogram in l. 6. For the name Πριμογένης (with μ and γ transposed) in Sicily, see IGCVO 1339 (Syracuse, a Christian inscription).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492979
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101745
- PHI: 140870
- Printed editions
- Amico (1741) at 267 no. X
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 368 no. 3
- Edmond Frédéric Le Blant, Inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule antérieures au VIIIe siècle, 2 vol. (Paris: l’Imprimerie impériale, 1856), at xxxviii n.4
- 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 9490
- 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 546
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026