ISic001378: Epitaph
- ID
- ISic001378
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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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 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 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
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).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492992
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101759
- PHI: 140884
- PHI: 316286
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 277
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 4.9509
- 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 14.0559
- Antonio Ferrua, «Epigrafica sicula pagana e cristiana», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 18 (1941): 151–243, at 221 no.107
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 210
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022