ISic003246: Epitaph for Merkouriales
- ID
- ISic003246
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- Castelli, Ferrara, Franz, and Kaibel read the inscription intact
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of marble plaque, damaged on the lower left corner. The fragments were set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 15-23mm
- 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
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Second half of 1st — end 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Kaibel believed the inscription to be urban, but according to Korhonen the structure is typical of Catania. The epitaph, in fact, presents, after the traditional invocation to the underworld deities, the name of the deceased, his age and in another sentence the dedicant and the dedication verb. The form ἔποισε is also attested in IMusCatania 65 = ISic003223. Moreover, Korhonen dates the ink writing ‘Catania’ below the text to the 18th century and believes it refers to the findspot. The name of the deceased, Μερκουριάλης, is a translation of the Latin Mercurialis, but it does not seem to be other parallels in Sicily. The dedicant is anonym but the type of kinship with the deceased is expressed: the lack of the article before γυνή is notable, but it has parallels (IGUR 958).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 568533
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101162
- PHI: 316231
- Printed editions
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 146 no.34
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5716
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 343 no.2
- 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 14.1852
- 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 787
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 110
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022