ISic003282: Fragment of an epitaph
- ID
- ISic003282
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: Ferrua (accepted doubtfully by Korhonen, who suggests also ἀγορασία): [Τόπος Ἀν]δρέου·
- line.2: Ferrua: [ἐνθα κατ]άκειται; Korhonen: [ἐνθαδε κατ]άκειται
- line.3: Ferrara: νισ[---]; Ferrua, Korhonen: -ηνιο[ς]. Korhonen notes as unlikely [τελευτᾷ μ]ηνὶ Σ[επτ.]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Upper right fragment of a marble plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 1-4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 30-32mm
- 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, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 255
- Autopsy
- Observed by Stevenson (cod. Vat. Lat. 10574 f. 170r) in Museo dei Benedettini, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
5th — 6th century CE (AD 401 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph presents a structure peculiar to some Syracusan epitaphs that distinguish the owner of the burial place (in this case Ἀνδρέας) from the deceased who is buried there (the name that was supposed to follow the expression [ἐνθάδε κατ]ακεῖται): the form κατακεῖται is rare in Sicily but is also found in Catania in IG 14.559 = ISic001378. Similarly, ἔνθα is rare in Sicily, which is why Korhonen’s supplement ἐνθάδε seems to be more likely here than Ferrua’s ἔνθα. The name of the deceased was probably to be read at l. 3 and in -ηνιος (probable names are Νεμήνιος, Νεομήνιος and Νουμήνιος, which are attested in Sicily, see LGPN 3A: 312-313, 330): this would leave space in the line, although the name of the deceased could also have been in a centred position.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645550
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316257
- Printed editions
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 383 no.17
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at 113 no.427
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 175
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022