ISic003287: Fragment of an Epitaph
- ID
- ISic003287
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: Korhonen: -σειν could be the end of an infinitive;
- After M are traces of three letters, the first probably a Λ or Α (Λ for Amico, H for Ferrara, Μ for Korhonen), the second a Ζ and the third perhaps a punctuation mark
- lines.2-3: Amico, Ferrara, lapis: ΙΛΑΡΩ|ΝΟΣ; Korhonen: Ἱλαρω|νος
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragment of marble plaque damaged above and on the left, set in plaster in modern times. The text is inside an engraved frame.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 9 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 1-4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-3: 8-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 1740 "in Stesichori area", Catania (Amico).
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 281
- Autopsy
- Observed by Amico in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI 89).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph form has no parallels, although the verb παρακείμαι is found in funerary inscriptions (IEphesos 2200B, 2313B, 2407, IGBulg 1959). In this case, it may refer to a deceased (whose name must have been in the accusative case) or, as Korhonen also assumes, to the vessel that contained her. According to the scholar, the burial must have been inside a church dedicated to Saint Hilarion (and therefore emends Ἱλαρῶνος into the more common Ἱλαρίωνος), the Egyptian hermit who had spent three years in the Pachino promontory around 363 CE (Hier. Vit. Sancti Hilarionis 34-38).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645555
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316271
- Printed editions
- V. and Statella Amico E., Catana Ilustrata, vol. 3 (Catanae, 1741), at 274 no.2
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 383 no.7
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 189
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022