ISic003243: Epitaph for Sabeina
- ID
- ISic003243
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 30.5 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 1-4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 22-30mm
- 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 , 276
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino del Cortile, Museo Biscari (formerly sala VI 84).
- Map
Date
Mid 1st — end 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Korhonen considers the epitaph from Catania because of its palaeographic characteristics, although its structure is remarkable: the name of the dedicant is in the nominative form and is followed by the name of the deceased in dative (with the specification of the degree of kinship) and by the dedication verb with the expression μνήμης χάριν; another sentence with the indication of the age follows (see in Catania also IG 14.476 = ISic001299). Strangely after the indication of the deceased there is a participle ζῶν referring to the dedicant, who made the epitaph while alive (see IG 14.489): on these two formulae, see Korhonen 2004: 88-89. The dedicant has a double name, Λόλλις Εὐτύχης: Λόλλις is not attested elsewhere in Sicily, while Εὐτύχης is found in two Latin inscriptions from the imperial period, CIL 10.7094 = ISic000376 and CIL 10.7099 = ISic000381. The name of his wife, Σαβείνα, is frequent in Sicily and recurs in a Christian inscription from Catania (IG 14.549 = ISic001368).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645541
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316228
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2004.0649
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0905
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 105
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022