ISic001378: Epitaph

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001378
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photograph;
  • line.1: Kirchhoff: [ἔνθα κ]ατακεῖται; Kaibel: [κ]ατακεῖται; Korhonen: [ἐνθάδε κ]ατακεῖται
  • line.2: Amico, Kirchhoff, Kaibel: [---]ΙΡΕΤΟΣDΤΩΝ; Ferrua: [Φιλά]ρετος

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, damaged on the left, set in plaster in modern times.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 17 cmwidth: 28 cmdepth: 1.8 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-2: 30-35mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 263
Autopsy
Observed by Amico in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI 71).
Map

Date

Second half of 4th century CE or 5th century CE (AD 350 – AD 500)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

This epitaph is dated to the 4th-5th century AD on a palaeographic basis. Also dating back to late antiquity is the expression ἔνθα/ἐνθάδε κατακεῖται, which recurs in only another inscription from Catania dated to the 5th-6th century AD (IMusCatania 175 = ISic003282), but it is frequent in late antiquity or Byzantine inscriptions from Asia Minor and Black Sea (e.g. IMT Kyz Propinseln 1366, IK Sinope 191, IOSPE 5.72, 267, 268). The name of the deceased is Φιλάρετος according to Ferrua, Εὕρετος or Ἄρετος according to Korhonen (on which see Solin 1982: 1271-1272, 1280).

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Citation and editorial status

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