ISic003252: Epitaph for Rhoskia Nike
- ID
- ISic003252
- 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: Kaibel: Ῥωσκίᾳ Νίκῃ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 1-4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 14-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, “ex urbe fortasse” according to Kaibel, but the structure and the onomastics are characteristic of Catania for Korhonen.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 236
- Autopsy
- Observed by Kaibel in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del Cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI 44).
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph presents the invocation to the underworld deities (Θ Κ Χ could be an interference with the Latin formula D M S), the name of the deceased, the age and, in an independent sentence, the name of the dedicant and the name of the deceased in dative (here expressed in his degree of kinship) occasionally with the dedication verb (here implied). This inscription is strictly linked to IG 14.1919 = ISic003260, an epitaph for Ourbana, daughter of Ourbikos and Nike, who are to be identified respectively in the dedicant and in the deceased named in this epitaph, which must therefore be later than that for their daughter. The deceased must have been a Roman citizen, as revealed by the gentilicium Ῥωσκία (also attested in other inscriptions from Catania, such as IG 14.486 = ISic001309 and IMusCatania 179 = ISic003283): the name Νίκη is widely attested in Sicily (see LGPN 3A: 320). The name of the husband and dedicant, Οὐρβικός, on the contrary, is not attested elsewhere in Sicily (a Οὔρβικα is attested in Syracuse in IG 14.156 = ISic000977).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 636492
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101274
- PHI: 316235
- Printed editions
- 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 14.1981
- 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 923
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 124
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022