ISic001369: Epitaph for Soteris
- ID
- ISic001369
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.3: F lapis, interpreted by Amico, Castelli, Ferrara, Kirchhoff, Kaibel, Wessel as a γ, by Korhonen as a ς;
- Kirchhoff, Kaibel: καλ[αν]-; Korhonen: καλ(αν)-
- line.6: Castelli: Χρσιανή (sic); Kirchhoff: χριανή; Kaibel: χρηςιανή; lapis, Korhonen: χρησιανή (see also Agnello 1953: 50 no.102 = ISic001655)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque with rounded corners.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 14-20mm
- Lines 7: 34mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 1739 “in via, quae ad suburbium ducit” according to Amico, “fuori la Porta di Aci”, according to Ferrara”.
Current location
- Place
- Catania,
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 718
- Autopsy
- Observed by Amico and Castelli in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VIII 65).
- Map
Date
4th century CE (AD 301 – AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This inscription presents the traditional structure of the Christian funerary inscriptions from Catania, with the formula ἐνθάδε κεῖται ὁ δεῖνα, but here the date of death (introduced by the verb τελευτάω) precedes the indication of the age of the deceased (with the participle of ζάω). The interpretation of the numeral at l. 3 is debated: Amico read F correcting it as a Γ and followed by all the other scholars, with the exception of Korhonen, who intends it as an angular ς. The name of the deceased, Σωτηρίς, is frequent in Sicily: see e.g. SEG 57.0901 = ISic003607 (from Syracuse). The form χρησιανή has a parallel in a Christian metrical epitaph: Agnello 1953: 50 no.102 = ISic001655).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492982
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101749
- PHI: 140874
- PHI: 316277
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 268 no.11
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 256 no.55
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 275 no.63
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9481
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 370 no.1
- 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 14.0550
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 332
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 197
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022