ISic001416: Funerary inscription of Attinis
- ID
- ISic001416
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Brugnone and photograph;
- 3: Brugnone: βρ<ε>σβ; lapis: βρϲβ, and since elsewhere lunate sigma is quadrate while epsilon is lunate, a weakly incised epsilon and omitted sigma seems more likely
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An irregular plaque of 'pietra arenaria', of irregular shape, broken into three joining fragments, with a section missing from the lower edge; the text is complete.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 72 cm, width: 42 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over four lines to fit the width of the stone, below a menorah
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 2-5: 40-70mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Philosophiana
- Provenance found
- Found in contrada Fontanazzi (during excavations of 1954 / 1961), in the eastern part of the Sofiana cemetery, re-use in a boundary wall between two lots of the cemetery
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela , 9361
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
5th century CE (so Brugnone) (AD 401 – AD 500)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Presbuteros with initial B is also attested in ISic003631 (Siracusa). The inscription is for a member of the council of elders within the local jewish community. The form Attinis is not otherwise documented. A second inscription was found in the same area by chance in 1948 this one (so Bonomi p.199), but is now lost and no details seem to be preserved, except that it consisted of four lines.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 494019
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38000220
- PHI: 178081
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1996.0808
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1958.0563
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1081
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 52.0908
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1245
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 15.0599
- J.-B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum: recueil des inscriptions juives qui vont du IIIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ au VIIe siècle de notre ère, 2 vol. (Vatican City: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1936), at 1.653b
- L. Bonomi, «Cimiteri paleocristiani di Sofiana (retroterra di Gela)», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 40 (1964): 169–220, at 200 fig.35
- D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), at no.157
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Le iscrizioni», in La Sicilia centro-merdionale tra il II ed il VI sec. d.C., a c. di R.M. Bonacasa Carra e R. Panvini (Caltanissetta: Salvatore Sciascia editore, 2002), 295–301, at 297-298 no.3 fig.4
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
- 3/12/2025