ISic002723: Epitaph of Ioudas
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Brugnone;
- 2-3: Bonomi: alternatively Σαβα<τ>ίας
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Irregular sandstone stele, recomposed from multiple fragments, damaged on the left
- Object type
- stele
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 85 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 7-8.5 cm
Material
- Description
- sandstone
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Large irregular text over three lines
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Delta and Alpha tending to cursive; lunate sigma.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 35-90mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Philosophiana
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations of 1954 / 1961, in re-use as a cover in the praefurnium in room IV of the bath complex
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela
- 38324
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th century CE, in re-use in the bath building (AD 301 - AD 400)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The epitaph is assumed to be of Jewish individual (several inscriptions from Sofiana attest to a Jewish community), the name Ioudas commonly used in Jewish inscriptions; the second word is variously interpreted as an anthroponym (especially if read as Sabatias, derived from 'Sabbath') or as an epithet describing a profession.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645143
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 178082
- PHI: 333153
- Printed editions
- ‘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 45.1354
- L. Bonomi, «Cimiteri paleocristiani di Sofiana (retroterra di Gela)», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 40 (1964): 169–220, at 179 fig. 9 and 207
- D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), at no.158
- J.B. Curbera, ‘Σαβανας and Ἐσταμινιας: New Nouns in -Ας’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 108 (1995): 101–2, at 101 no.1
- Brugnone (2002) at 298 no.4 fig.5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/23/2025