ISic003224: Epitaph for Katylleinos
- ID
- ISic003224
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.2: Castelli read the text without the lacuna, but according to Korhonen, this is a not recorded supplement by the previous editors
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of marble plaque, slightly damaged in the middle.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 1.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 11-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded. Kaibel thought this inscription was ‘urbanae fortasse originis’, but the structure of the epitaph is in line with other epitaphs from Catania and this led Korhonen to consider it to be from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 544
- Autopsy
- Observed by Castelli in Monastero di San Nicolò l’Arena, later by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VII 188).
- Map
Date
2nd century CE or first half of 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
According to Korhonen, the form of this epitaph is one of the most common in Catania, with two main sentences, the first containing the name of the deceased and his age, the second the indication of the dedicant with the aorist of ποιέω, which in this case precedes the name of the dedicant, as in IG 14.467 = ISic001291. For this reason, Korhonen rejects Kaibel’s classification (adopted by Moretti in IGUR) of this inscription among the urban inscriptions. The expression μνήμης χάριν occurs in many epitaphs from Catania: e.g. IG 14.485 = ISic00001308, IG 14.509 = ISic001330, IG 14.511 = ISic001332. The name of the deceased, Κατυλλεῖνος, recurs also in an inscription from Syracuse: SEG 36.862 = ISic001650. Εὐοδία could be the mother of the young deceased: the name is possibly found in an inscription from Syracuse (Agnello 1960: no.39 + Ferrua 1989: no.243).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 636409
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101071
- PHI: 316211
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5711
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.1745
- Luigi Moretti, Inscriptiones Graecae urbis Romae, 4 voll., Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la storia antica ; fasc. 17, &c (Roma: Istituto italiano per la storia antica, 1968), at 670
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 68
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022