ISic003296: Fragment of an epitaph

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
ISic003296
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on photograph;
  • Apparently there is no text before l. 1;
  • line.1: Korhonen: [---δ]ώρα (possibly Ἰσιδώρα or Θεοδώρα)
  • lines.1-2: Korhonen: σεμ|[νοτάτη]
  • line.2: Korhonen: [μ]άμμη (or ἀμμή)

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of marble plaque damaged above and on the left.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 27 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 3-5.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Lines 1-2: 30-32mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded, probably from Catania (or another city of Eastern Sicily).

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania
Autopsy
Observed by Libertini in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari.
Map

Date

5th — 8th century CE (AD 401 – AD 800)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The inscription is very fragmentary. Korhonen recognised at ll. 1-2 a traditional epithet characterising women in Christian epitaphs, σεμνοτάτη (other epithets are ἀγνοτάτη, πιστοτάτη, or εὐλαβεστάτη, on which see F. Grossi Gondi, "Trattato di epigrafia cristiana latina e greca del mondo romano occidentale" (Roma, 1920), 171-177; Korhonen 2004: 111). The name of the deceased was supposed to be either Ἰσιδώρα or Θεοδώρα, names that recur in Christian Sicilian funerary inscriptions (the former appears in an inscription from Catania of the Byzantine period, IMusCatania 191 = ISic003289, the latter in an inscription from Syracuse of the V-VI cent. CE, SEG 4.2 = ISic003178). The term μάμμη (or ἀμμή) is affective and recurs in another inscription from Catania of IV-V cent. CE, Libertini (1931), 44 no.7 = ISic001629.

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Citation and editorial status

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