ISic001379: Fragment of an epitaph
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- ID
- ISic001379
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque?
- Status
- edited
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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?
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
Inscription
- Layout
- Remnants of four lines are recorded, missing letters from both ends.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Amico records lunate sigma.
- 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 301 - AD 600)- 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 and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 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 560
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/11/2025