ISic001375: Epitaph

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ID
ISic001375
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photograph;
  • line.1: Kirchhoff, Korhonen: ἐνθάδε κεῖται
  • line.2: Traces of ΔΙ (or ΔΥ) on the stone registered also by Mavilla, Stevenson has ΔΙΟΝ.;
  • Kirchhoff: [ζήσας ἔτη], Korhonen: [ζήσασ-]
  • line.3: Alessi: ΑΜΕΜΠΟΣ, Kirkchhoff, Kaibel, Wessel: ἄμεμπ[τ]ος; Ferrua, Korhonen: ἀμέμπτω[ς];
  • Kirchhoff: [καὶ ἄλυπ]|[ος], Ferrua: [ζήσασα ἔτη], Korhonen: ἀμέμπτω[ς ἔτη]
  • line.4: Alessi, Wessel: λκ; Kirchhoff does not register the numeral; Kaibel: λβ; Ferrua, Korhonen: λε;
  • Kirchhoff, Kaibel, Wessel, Ferrua: τ[ῆι πρὸ -]; Korhonen: τ[ῇ πρ(ὸ) -]
  • line.5: Kirchhoff, Kaibel: Σε[πτεμβρίων]; Wessel: Σε[πτ. ἡμέρᾳ]; Korhonen: Σε[πτ(εμβρίων) ἡμε|ρᾷ]
  • line.6: Kirchhoff: κυρι[ακῇ ἡμέρᾷ]; Wessel: κυρίου; Korhonen: Κυρίου ἐ[ν εἰρήνῇ?]

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken top, right and below; embedded in a plaster plaque for display purposes, so sides and rear not visible.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 17 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 1-6 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Line 1-6: 20-25mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Found at the east of Porta Stesichori, close to the Convento del Carmine, it became part of Alessi’s collection (reported by Alessi as one of several find in the years preceding 1833).

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 296
Autopsy
Observed by Mavilla at the University of Catania and by Stevenson (Cod. Vat. Lat. 10574) in Antiquarium comunale, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico, formerly sala VI 104.
Map

Date

4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

The restoration of the ἐνθάδε κεῖται formula at l. 1 is highly probable since this is the most frequent structure in Christian epitaphs in Catania, followed by the participle of ζάω to express the age of the deceased and by the verb τελευτάω to specify the date of death (the examples without the ἐνθάδε κεῖται formula are rare and usually the name of the deceased follows the verb τελευτάω, as in IG 14.551 = ISic001370). Ferrua considers the deceased to be a woman and restores ζήσασα at l. 2, whereas Korhonen thinks he can identify the deceased with a Διονυσίος or Διονυσία because of the high frequency of these two names in Catania and indeed the space would fit these names. On the use of ἀμέμπτως ζῆν in the Christian epitaphs in Catania, see IMusCatania 208 = ISic003299, IMusCatania 212 = ISic000647 and Korhonen 2004: 111.

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Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
12/22/2022