ISic003289: Fragment of an Epitaph
- ID
- ISic003289
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: Korhonen: [---]ZIEIAΔΣIIΛIII[---]
- line.2: Libertini: υἱὸς Ἰσιδώρ(ας); Korhonen ET(---) M υἱός, Ἰσιδώρα +[---]. The small curved sign at the upper right of Τ could be an abbreviation for ων (see l. 4): ἐτ(ῶν) and the small sign above the Μ could indicate the numeral
- line.3: Libertini: ἐτέθει δὲ καὶ Ἰσιδώρα; Korhonen: [κατ].τέθει (i.e. κατετέθη) δὲ καὶ Ἰσιδώ[ρ-]
- line.4: According to Korhonen the first letter could also be a Κ. The small curved sign above the T and the N could be an abbreviation for ων (τ(ῶν) Καταν(ῶν), i.e. τῶν Καταν(αίων), see also Korhonen)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of marble plaque damaged on all sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 4.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 33-37mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania; Tardìa, Cod. Bibl. Comunale Palermo Qq C 17 a, f. 136r mentions the inscription as coming from Catania, communicated to him by Torremuzza 21 November 1766.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 644
- Autopsy
- Observed by Libertini in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VII 288).
- Map
Date
6th — 9 century CE (AD 501 – AD 900)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph is very fragmentary and the several abbreviations make it difficult to read. Palaeography suggests a date to the first Byzantine era. The text must have been an epitaph as suggested by the verb [---κατ]ετέθει (i.e. κατετέθη) at l. 3, which is used to indicate the act of burial. At l. 2 and l. 3 the female name Ἰσιδώρα can be read (but, as Korhonen points out, the second mention could also have been the masculine name Ἰσιδώρος), while at l. 4 the reading τ(ῶν) Καταν(ῶν) (i.e. τῶν Καταναίων) is likely and connects this inscription the city of Catania.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645556
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316272
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022