ISic003236: Inscribed funerary urn of Flavianos
- ID
- ISic003236
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- Cinerary urn
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy (Prag)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular white marble urn, with a lid. The lid has acroteria on each of the four corners. The urn has square fluted columns depicted in relief on each vertical corner, and a tabula ansata in light relief fills the front face.
- Object type
- Cinerary urn
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 45.5 cm, depth: 28 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text over four lines, centred in the main panel of the tabula ansata on the front face of the urn.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 15-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Not measured: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 1913 in a Roman tomb uncovered during building works in prop. Guglielmino, in the area known as Orto del Re (probably the insula bounded by via Nino Martoglio, via Stellata, via Orto San Clemente, and via Reclusorio del Lume).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 841
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.17
- Map
Date
69 CE — first half of 2nd century CE (AD 69 – AD 150)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
According to Paolo Orsi, the urn still contained the deceased’s ashes when it was discovered, and traces of gilding were still visible on some of the letters and the capital of one of the relief columns. The use of the name Flavianus suggests a date after the beginning of the Flavian dynasty (beginning with Vespasian, 69 AD), but Flavianus’ status as slave, freedman, or free remains uncertain. The use of architectural elements in the form of the chest and a tabula ansata to frame the inscription are typical features of ash chests of this period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645538
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316218
- 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 216
- Guido Libertini, Il Castello Ursino e le raccolte artistiche comunali di Catania (Zuccarello e Izzi, 1937), http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lQL9ygAACAAJ, at 50
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 134
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 87
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 6/6/2023