ISic001649: Funerary inscription for Zosime
- ID
- ISic001649
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23.4 cm, width: 31.6 cm, depth: 3.2-3.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 14-29mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- One of several inscriptions found c.1930 in Via Androne (prop. Calderaro) during building works.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 531
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.28
- Map
Date
345 CE (AD 345 – AD 345)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
This is one of relatively few Christian epitaphs in Latin from Catania. The name Zosime is a common Greek one, found several times in eastern Sicily. Giving a date by referring to the consuls in office during that year reflects standard Roman dating practice, but giving the precise date of death in a funerary inscription is a distinctive feature of Christian funerary epigraphy, and this is one of the earliest Sicilian examples to use a consular date. The misspelling of vixit as bixsit reflects a common confusion of ‘B’ and ‘V’ (due to a merging of the sound represented by each letter in Latin). This is more common in southern than northern Italy, and in this case may well represent the influence of Greek (where use of β for a Latin V is commonplace; see no.24).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175849
- EDR: 073195
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 16100302
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 370 no.1 = Libertini (1981) 112 no.1
- « 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 1933.0029
- « 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 1932.0072
- Guido Libertini, «Miscellanea epigrafica», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 27 (1931): 39–53, at 48 no.2 = Libertini (1981) 97 no.2
- S.L. Agnello, Silloge di iscrizioni paleocristiane della Sicilia (Rome, 1953), at no.88
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 4 no.2
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at no.422
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 165
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021