ISic001379: Fragment of an epitaph
- ID
- ISic001379
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque?
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- The conjectural restoration, derived from the transcription of Amico is that of Kirchhoff in CIG, repeated by Kaibel in IG;
- 3: Amico: ...ΑΕΥ...
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment, but no description provided by Amico.
- Object type
- plaque?
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remnants of four lines are recorded, missing letters from both ends.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Amico as part of the collection in his edition of 1741, and so most likely of local provenance in Catania; not recorded subsequently.
Current location
Lost
Date
Traces of the standard formulations of Christian epitaphs are the only indication of date, suggesting 4th - 6th century CE. (AD 300 – AD 599)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
The restoration of Kirchhoff is obviously speculative, particularly in lines 3-4, but plausible, based upon the formularity of such texts, and suggesting that only a small amount is missing from the left margin of the fragment.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492993
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101760
- PHI: 140885
- 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 4.9508
- 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 14.0560
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