ISic003284: Epitaph for Kyriake
- ID
- ISic003284
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.2: Ferrua, Korhonen: κ(αὶ)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three joining fragments damaged above and perhaps on the left, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 1-6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Irregular letters, A with serifs and straight bar.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 37-42mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the necropolis of Via Androne, Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 297
- Autopsy
- Observed by Ferrua in sala VI of Castel Ursino and later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The fragment is probably part of a Christian epitaph: Κυριακή must have been the name of the deceased (perhaps not the only one mentioned in the epitaph if κ is an abbreviation for καί as in IMusCatania 167 = ISic001648) and not the indication of the day of Sunday (κυριακὴ [ἡμήρα]), as Ferrua believed. This is the only occurrence of this name in Catania, whereas it is more widespread in Christian inscriptions from Syracuse (see LGPN 3A: 262).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645552
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316262
- 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 370 no.4
- Guido Libertini, «Miscellanea epigrafica», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 27 (1931): 39–53, at 43 no.4
- Antonio Ferrua, «Osservazioni sulle iscrizioni cristiane catanesi», Bollettino Storico Catanese 3 (1938): 60–74, at 70
- Guido Libertini, Scritti su Catania antica (Catania, 1981), at 93 no.4
- Guido Libertini, Scritti su Catania antica (Catania, 1981), at 113 no.4
- Antonio Ferrua, Note e giunte alle iscrizioni cristiane antiche della Sicilia (Vatican, 1989), at 110 no.420
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 180
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022