ISic003286: Epitaph for Eutychis

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003286
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photograph;
  • lines.2-3: Orsi: ΖΗ|ΣΑ; Ferrua; Wessel: ζή|σα; Korhonen: ζή|σα
  • line.3: Orsi: ΜΝ in ligature; Wessel: μ(η)ν.; Ferrua, Korhonen: ν
  • line.4: Orsi; Wessel: ΠΡO ΕΙΔ(ΩΝ) ΙΑ[νουαρίου]; Ferrua: πρὸ θ ἰδ(ῶν); Korhonen: πρὸ ε ἰδ(ῶν) (after ιδ are scratches, not letters). After ιδ a long stroke is visible (perhaps the first letter of Ἰανουαρίων, Ἰουνίων or Ἰουλίων)

Physical description

Support

Description
Marble plaque recomposed by 13 fragments, set in plaster in modern times.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 31.5 cm, width: 46 cm, depth: 1-6 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-4: 35-50mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Found by Prof. Gioacchino Basile in the vicinity of the now destroyed Church of S. Clemente, likely site of an early christian cemetery.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania , 313
Autopsy
Observed by Ferrua in sala VI Castel Ursino, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico.
Map

Date

4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The epitaph has the clause ἐνθάδε κεῖται followed by the name of the deceased and her age. In another sentence is the day of death: the text seems to be complete, but the stonecutter does not mention the month (or mentions it in a very abbreviated form) and at ll. 2 and 3 he does not engrave some characters most probably due to an error in calculating the space left on the right. The name Εὐτυχίς is found in two other inscriptions of Catania from the imperial period: Ferrua 1989: 119 no.456, CIL 10.7072 = ISic000356 (LGPN 3A: 179 strangely has two different entries, one for Εὐτύχις of this inscription, another for Εὐτυχίς).

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/22/2022