ISic003283: Epitaph for Klaudia Rosskia
- ID
- ISic003283
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- lines.1-2: Libertini: Ῥωσσί|α; Mercurelli, Ferrua, Korhonen: Ῥωσσκ|α
- line.2: Libertini: Ζώηλ(ε); Ferrua, Korhonen: ζῶσα;
- Libertini: ἐποίησε; Ferrua, Korhonen: ἐποίησα
- line.3: Libertini, Ferrua: αὐτῇ; Korhonen: ατῇ (i.e. ἐμαυτῇ)
- line.5: Libertini: μετ’ εἰρ[ένῃ] (sic); Ferrua, Korhonen: μετὰ εἰρ[ήνης]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble parallelepiped block, damaged on the lower right corner. The text is engraved inside a frame.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 30.5 cm, width: 25 cm, depth: 15.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 15-29mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in area of Via Dottor Consoli.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- Observed by Ferrua in sala VIII of Castel Ursino and later by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Second half of 3rd century CE or first half of 4th century CE (AD 250 – AD 350)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This Christian epitaph presents the structure with the name of the deceased and the verb ποιέω indicating that the deceased, while still alive (participle of ζάω), built the monument (or composed the epigram on the monument) for herself and his relatives (on the same structure in Catania see IG 14.489 = ISic001312 and Korhonen 2004: 88-89). The clause μετὰ εἰρήνης is not frequent, more frequently attested is ἐν εἰρήνῃ (see IG 14.556 = ISic001375). The gentilicium Ῥωσκία reveals the Roman citizenship of the deceased (for other evidence of the gentilicium in inscriptions from Catania, see IG 14.486 = ISic001309, IG 14.500 = ISic001321, IG 14.1981 = ISic003252).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645551
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316261
- 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 78.i
- C. Mercurelli, «Scoperta di un sepolcreto cristiano a Catania», Bullettino del Museo dell’Impero romano 9 (1938): 49–53, at 52-53
- Guido Libertini, Scritti su Catania antica (Catania, 1981), at 125
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at 111-112 no.424
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 179
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022