ISic003309: Fragment of an epitaph
- ID
- ISic003309
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of marble plaque broken on all sides, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 14 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 1-5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
A with straight bar, cursive Β and Ω.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 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, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 284
- Autopsy
- Observed by Korhonen in Magazzino del Cortile, Museo Civico.
- 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, with the indication of the date of death usually introduced by the present or aorist indicative of τελευτάω, but perhaps in this case by a participle [θαν]ῶν, such as in IMusCatania 201 = ISic003294. The day of death was probably in the lacuna at l. 3. Korhonen observes that this inscription is not connectable with IG 14.564 = ISic001383.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645570
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 316294
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/22/2022