ISic003271: Fragment of an Epitaph
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque (on the rear two horizontal grooves).
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 9 cm, width: 9 cm, depth: 2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Squared E, rhomboid O, traces of guide-lines.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 32mm
- 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, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (CE 1 - CE 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The fragment was probably part of an epitaph: the traces at l. 3 could be part of the dedication verb ποιέω, as Korhonen hypothesised. The interpunct could divide the first sentence with the name of the deceased and his age, from the second sentence with the name of the dedicant and the dedication verb, in this case in the first position as in IG 14.467 = ISic001291, where an interpunct also divides the two sentences.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645546
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316247
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (2004), 54.0904
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 157
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/5/2025