ISic003290: Epitaph for Priska(?)
- ID
- ISic003290
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: Ferrua, Noy: [---]ις κα[---]; Korhonen: [Πρ]ῖσκα
- line.2: Libertini, Korhonen: [ἔζ]ησεν; Ferrua, Noy: [---]ης εν[---]
- line.3: Liberini, Noy: δέκ[α]; Ferrua [---]ηδε κ[---]; Korhonen: [ἔτ]η δέκ[α]
- line.4: Ferrua: ἐτω(ν); Korhonen: [ἐν Χρισ]τῷ (the space between τω and the previous letter could be justified if we suppose an abbreviation: ἐν Χρ(ισ)τῷ); Chaniotis: [μήνας ὀκ]τώ;
- Ferrua, Noy and Korhonen 2001 interpreted the symbol as a menorah, but later Korhonen as a palm
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque damaged on the left and on the right, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 19.5 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
A with broken bar, Δ with serif, lunate Ε and Σ, cursive Ω.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 18-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, according to Korhonen and Noy from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 310
- Autopsy
- Observed by Libertini in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VII 288)
- Map
Date
4th century CE (AD 301 - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph is Jewish, as revealed by the symbol of a menorah. Korhonen rejects the Judaic provenance of the inscription believing the symbol to be a palm, but the feet of the menorah seems to be present even if not rubricated. Korhonen’s supplement to l. 4 ἐν Χρ(ισ)τῷ (the same abbreviation as in RQUA 10 (1896) 38 nr. 67), for this reason, cannot be supported: moreover, the space does not seem sufficient. If one assumes that a few characters are missing on the right, the integration of Chaniotis (ap. SEG) [μήνας ὀκ]τώ is also not possible. One possibility would be to integrate the numeral δεκαοκτώ. For the name Prisca in another Latin inscription from Catania from the imperial period, see CIL 10.1088*199 = ISic003241.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645557
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 178071
- PHI: 316273
- PHI: 336683
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 51.1200
- Guido Libertini, Il Museo Biscari (Milan: Casa editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tuminelli, 1930), at 318 no.8
- Antonio Ferrua, «Osservazioni sulle iscrizioni cristiane catanesi», Bollettino Storico Catanese 3 (1938): 60–74, at 72 no.3
- D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), at no.147
- Kalle Korhonen, «Osservazioni sul collezionismo epigrafico siciliano», Arctos: acta philologica fennica 35 (2001): 85–102, at 93-94
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 192
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022