ISic003281: Epitaph for Bassos
- ID
- ISic003281
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Irregular marble plaque, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 28.5 cm, depth: 1-4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 18-28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 'cimitero a formae' near Via Vittorio Emanuele, Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 252
- Autopsy
- Observed by Orsi and Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico (formerly sala VI 60).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph presents the traditional expression ἐνθάδε κεῖται (for the phonetic development of κεῖται into κεῖτε from the 3rd cent. AD, see in Catania IG 14.532 = ISic001351, Libertini (1930) 44 no.7 = ISic001629), followed by the name of the deceased, the age and the date of death (in this case expressed with the verb τελευτάω in the aorist form), which is frequent in Christian epitaphs. In this case, there is the mention (rare in Christian epitaphs) of the profession of the deceased, ἰατρός. For other Sicilian inscriptions mentioning doctors, see Rizzo, F. P. (1989), "La menzione del lavoro nelle epigrafi della Sicilia antica: Per una storia della mentalità", pp.62-64 and Manganaro, G. (1994), "Iscrizioni, epigrafi ed epigrammi in Greco della Sicilia orientale di epoca romana", in "Mélanges de l’École Francaise de Rome: Antiquité" 106(1), 79–118, at p.107.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645549
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316253
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 63 no.7
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1920 p.432
- C. Wessel, Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae Veteres Occidentis, Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae (Bari: Edipuglia, 1989), at 140
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 171
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022