ISic001371: Christian funerary epitaph for Romanos(?) and Agathe
- ID
- ISic001371
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text as restored by Ferrua, after the transcription of Ferrara;
- 1: Ferrara: ΑΤCΙΑCΙΑ
- 3: Ferrara: ΚΕCΟΦΙΑCΙΙ
- 4: Ferrar: CΕΝΔΕΡΩΛ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Ferrara as one of a number of fine but broken marbles, and so presumably a damaged marble plaque. No further details are recorded.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek letters
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Ferrara records broken bar alpha throughout, as well as lunate epsilon and sigma, minuscule omega, and delta with extended apex.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Ferrara in the collection of Baron Recupero; not seen subsequently.
Current location
Lost.
Date
As Ferrua notes, the formula of purchase is Christian, so to be dated in the fourth to sixth centuries CE. (AD 301 - AD 600)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492984
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101751
- PHI: 140876
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 383 no.15
- 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 552
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 238 no.134
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.56
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/11/2025