ISic001374: Fragment of a funerary inscription
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ferrua following the transcription of Amico, but supplying extensive restorations;
- lines.1-2: [ἐνθάδε κατάκεινται | [ἡ μακαρία]ς μνήμης Ferrua; [ἐνθάδε κεῖται | ὁ τῆς μακαρία]ς μνήμης CIG IV 9498; ὁ τῆς μακαρία]ς μνήμης IG XIV 555
- line.4: [ἐλθοῦσα κ(αὶ) Ἰο]ῦστος πιστός Ferrua; φιλόχρι]στος CIG IV 9498
- lines.5-6: [ἠγόρασαν] παρὰ Ἀλε|[ξάνδρου Ferrua; πολυπόθητος] παρὰ ἀε|[λφῶν CIG IV 9498; ἠγόρασα τὸν τόπον] παρὰ Ἀλε|[ξάνδρου IG XIV 555
- line.6: εὐ]μοιρείτων Ferrua; ΜΟΙΡΕΙΠΩΝ Amico; τῶν εὐμοιρειτῶν IG XIV 555
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Amico as 'in semipalmari ex albo marmore saxo diffracto', in other words a c.12cm fragment of white marble, intact on the right, broken on the left (but whether a plaque or something else is not certain.
- Object type
- unknown
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 12 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Amico records lunate sigma and uncial omega, but quadrate epsilon (but epsilon appears always to be printed quadrate in this work).
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Amico, in the S. Nicolai museum, not seen subsequently by Kaibel
Current location
Lost.
Date
Later Roman (CE 201 - CE 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The funerary inscription most likely originally opened with the formula ἐνθάδε κεῖται (l. 1). According to Ferrua’s restoration, the epitaph commemorated two deceased individuals: a woman, identified by the expression ἡ μακαρίας μνήμης followed by her personal name (for this formula, characteristic of Christian funerary inscriptions and corresponding to the Latin bonae memoriae, see IG XIV 537 (ISic001356) from Catania; cf. Agnello 1953, 59), and a man named Ἰοῦστος (cf. SEG 26.1173 from Catania). Lines 5–6 probably contained a record of the purchase of the burial plot or funerary monument by the deceased themselves during their lifetime from a certain Alexander. The final invocation, εὐμοιρείτων, may be addressed to the deceased and echo similar invocations in the second-person singular (εὐμοίρει: IG XIV 114, IG XIV 124, SEG 45.1419.5, all from Syracuse).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492987
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101754
- PHI: 140879
- PHI: 140880
- Printed editions
- Amico (1741) at 272 no.XVII
- 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 9498
- 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 555
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at 117 no.447
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/3/2026