ISic001516: Epitaph for Euskia
- ID
- ISic001516
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Sgarlata 1998 controlled against photograph for detailing of ligatures
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, approximately square in form, intact on left and upper edges, but irregular on right and broken along the lower edge towards the right hand side. The plaque had plaster on both front and rear when found, from later re-use as a tomb cover.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 25.2 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found by Orsi in the 'Cappella di Eusebio' in the southern region of the Catacomb of S.Giovanni, on 22 June 1894. Now on display in sector F of the Archaeological Museum.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 14600
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Early 5th century CE (Sgarlata) (AD 401 – AD 450)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
Epitaph of Euskia, who died in the festival of Saint Lucia - for whose cult this is the earliest evidence (martyred c.304 AD).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645016
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 333765
- 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 2004.0656
- Paolo Orsi, «Insigne epigrafe del cimitero di S. Giovanni in Siracusa», Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Alterthumskunde und für Kirchengeschichte 9 (1895): 299–308.
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0942
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0842
- B. Pace, Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica. Volume quarto. Barbari e Bizantini (Rome, Naples, Città di Castello: Società anonima editrice Dante Alighieri, 1949), at 15 fig.2
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.20
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at 4.526-528 no.4 fig.164
- Denis Feissel, « Trois aspects de l’influence du latin sur le grec tardif », Travaux et mémoires du Centre de recherches d’histoire et civilisation byzantines 8 (1981): 135‑50, at 136 n.13
- Giuseppe Greco et al., Et lux fuit. Le catacombe e il sarcofago di Adelfia (Palermo: Arnaldo Lombardi Editore, 1998), at 52-54 fig. 21
- M. Sgarlata, S. Giovanni a Siracusa, Catacombe di Roma e d’Italia 8 (Rome: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2003), at 113-116 fig.69
- Gioconda Lamagna e R. Amato, La Rotonda di Adelfia. Testimonianze archeologiche dalla catacomba di S. Giovanni (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2014), at 23 fig.7
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/21/2024