ISic003272: Fragment of an Epitaph
- ID
- ISic003272
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- Korhonen restores οὐ[δεὶς] at l. 2, but it seems there is a space after υ and that the restoration should continue at l. 3
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lower right fragment of a corroded marble plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 12.5 cm, width: 14.5 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 20-25mm
- 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
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
End 2nd — end 3rd century CE (AD 150 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The fragment is part of an epitaph: Korhonen restores a formula found in Greek pagan and Christian inscriptions and in Latin funerary inscriptions (in which it occurs in Greek), οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος. The formula is found in another Latin inscription from Catania, CIL 10.7111 = IG 14.513 = ISic000393: on the formula, see Marcel Simon, ‘Θάρσει Οὐδεὶς Ἀθάνατος: Étude de Vocabulaire Religieux', Revue de l'histoire des religions 113 (1936): 188–206. The traces at l. 2 are not compatible with εὐψύχ(ε)ι, which usually accompanies the expression. It is not possible to say whether this is a pagan or a Christian epitaph.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645547
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316249
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022