ISic001376: Fragmentary Christian epitaph
- ID
- ISic001376
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque?
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Amico, with the supplements of Kirchhoff in IG (followed by Kaibel);
- 3: Kirchhoff prints a supraline above the Θ, but this is not visible in Amico's transcription.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An incomplete stone inscription, most likely a (marble?) plaque, no further details recorded.
- Object type
- plaque?
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek text, with a cross at the start and the end, and a palm branch at the end of the text.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- The inscription is recorded by Amico 1741 in the colelction of Giovanni Rizzari, and at a roughly contemporary date in a manuscript containing inscriptions copied by Antonio Francesco Gori (cod. Marucelliano A6, f.456r. It has not been seen subsequently, but may have been transported to France.
Current location
Lost
Date
Surviving content indicates a Christian epitaph of the later Roman period. (AD 300 – AD 599)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
It is impossible to know if the numeral of age at death was simply 60, or anything up to 69. The inscription was seen in the collection of the Rizzari family in the first half of the eighteenth century. Several of the inscriptions from this collection subsequently passed to France, to the collection of Léon Dufourny, but the fate of this particular one is not recorded and it has not been seen subsequently. Detailed discussion can be found in K. Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo Civico di Catania (2004), pp. 14-16 with n.37.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492990
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101757
- PHI: 140882
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 271 no.XVI
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9495
- 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 14.0557
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/11/2025