ISic003223: Funerary inscription for Kailia Heorte
- ID
- ISic003223
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25.5 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
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- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 12-28mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found before 1931 on the site of the demolished church and convent of the Cappuccini Vecchi (now Palazzo della Borsa), in the area of the Roman amphitheatre, within a Roman tomb containing c.30 burials.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 235
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.25
- Map
Date
Second half of 1st — first half of 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 150)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
The phrasing of this text, with the unusual Δαίμοσι χθονίοις (one other Sicilian instance, IG XIV.294, from Alcamo), instead of the more normal Θεοῖς Καταχθονίοις (both imitating the Latin Dis Manibus), the uncommon ἐβίωσε instead of ἔζησε (‘she lived’, Latin vixit), and the unusual form ἔποισε (‘she made’, usually ἐποίησε, Latin fecit) all suggest the influence of typical Latin formulaic construction (compare nos. 18-21). Both Heorte and Blaste are rare names, mostly found in the eastern Mediterranean in the imperial period, but each is attested once also in Siracusa. Given that Kailia is the Latin Caelia, it is possible that Heorte is intended as a translation of the Latin Festa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285113
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 15500220
- PHI: 316209
- Printed editions
- Guido Libertini, «Miscellanea epigrafica», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 27 (1931): 39–53, at 46 no.11 = Libertini (1981) 96
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 65
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