ISic003291: Epitaph of Rouphina and Hesychios
- ID
- ISic003291
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- line.1: lapis: ΙΟΥΦΙΝ; Korhonen: ουφῖν[αν]
- line.2: Korhonen: ζήσα[ς]; Pleket: ζήσα[σαν]
- line.3: Korhonen: [ἠγορ]ήσατο
- line.4: Korhonen reads a Σ, but it could also be a Ο
- line.5: Korhonen reads a Γ, but it could also be a T
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
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 25.5 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 12-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 261
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico (formerly sala VI 69).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 – AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph must have been partly metrical (ll. 1-2), as Korhonen pointed out. It can be assumed that Hesychios had acquired the burial place while alive (ζήσας) for his mother Rouphina (for himself and another deceased (?): αὐτοῖς). At l. 4 a supplement could be [πάντα τ]ὸν χρόνον to indicate the permanent possession of the purchase of the tomb or with [πάντα τ]ὸν τόπον to indicate the purchase of the entire place for the burial of the deceased. The names Rouphina and Hesychios recur in Christian epitaphs from Syracuse, see SEG 36.872 = ISic002932, IG 14.164 = ISic000985, Agnello 1950: 60 no.11 = ISic002918.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645558
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316274
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2004.0655
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0910
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 194
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022