ISic003087: Fragment of an epitaph?
- ID
- ISic003087
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph and on Ferrua's edition;
- line.1: The only trace at l. 1 seems to belong neither to a N nor to a Ω. ΝΩΝ was seen by Amico in 1741.;
- According to Korhonen, also μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν is possible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble fragment damaged on all sides, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: 16 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 22-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 286
- Autopsy
- Observed by Amico in Museo dei Benedettini and later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI 94).
- Map
Date
435 CE (AD 435 – AD 435)- Evidence
- internal-date
Text type
commentary
The inscription is probably the fragment of the end of an epitaph with a consular date: the date on which the deceased died is recorded (the indication Νων[ῶν] must have been accompanied by the day and followed by the month) and the consuls of that year. Ferrua’s supplements are based on the traces at l. 2 ΟΣΙΟ, which could only belong to the name Theodosius and the numeral δ probably indicating the number of the consulate of Theodosius’colleague, both Augusti. The only possibility is then 435 AD, the year of the fifteenth consulate of Theodosius II and the fourth of Valentian III (a date also confirmed by palaeography).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645438
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316251
- PHI: 331402
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 277
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 36.0842bis
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 19 no.66 fig.1g
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 168
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022