ISic003308: Fragment of an epitaph
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph;
- 2: Korhonen: [--- τελε]υτᾷ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Right fragment of marble plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 9.5 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 3.7 cm
Material
- Description
- Fine to medium-grained, banded, white marble, likely Aphrodisian, Docimian, Parian-1, Parian-2, Parian-3, Parian-4, Ephesian_scritto, Ephesian_white. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Aphrodisian,Docimian,Parian-1,Parian-2,Parian-3,Parian-4,Ephesian_scritto,Ephesian_white
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Cursive A
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 15-18mm
- 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, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari (?).
- Map
Date
4th — 5th century CE (AD 301 - AD 500)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This inscription is a fragment of a Christian epitaph, probably with the indication of the date of death introduced by the present indicative of τελευτάω. The letters at l. 1 could be part of the name of the deceased.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645569
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316293
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022