ISic003461: Epitaph of Gregorios

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Rizzone 2009, checked against photograph;
• 1: Manganaro restores a christogram at the start of the line, which can only be hypothetical
  
• 3: Rizzone: Πο-|[θή]του; Manganaro πρ(εσ)β(ύτερος)
  
• 4: Manganaro: ἐν κώ(μη)ͅ Μηνηνίου; ἰου(λίου) or ἰου(νίου) is possible.

Physical description

Support

Description

Described as a plaque, perhaps of Luna marble, intact above and to the right, broekn on the left and below; no measurements preserved.

Object type

plaque

Material

marble

Object condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Text not quite perpendicular to the stone, four full lines of text, with final line centred.

Text condition

incomplete

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega, delta with extended hasta, use of supralines.

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Sicilia

Provenance found

No details of provenance or discovery recorded; known only from Manganaro's observation and poor photograph.

Current location

Place

Unknown, Italy

Repository

Autopsy

None

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

There seems no clear basis on which to decide whether Gregorios or his father was the presbuteros, since the ending is lost in the abbreviation, but it clearly affects the debate regarding celibacy of priests. Manganaro assumed the word referred to Gregorios; Rizzone to his father Po[--]tos.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 644938
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: 337428

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 2004.0665
• Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 2006.0566
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1107
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 54.0944
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia della Sicilia bilingue in epoca tardoantica: presbiteri cristiani e superstizione giudaizzante nel contado», in Da abitato in abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei, a c. di F.P. Rizzo, Seia 8-9 (2003-2004) (Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2005), 35–44, at 35-37 fig.1
• Giacomo Manganaro Perrone, «Epigrafe in greco di IV sec. d.C. di Alesa (Sicilia) in versi e prosa, per la morte di Eirena Philandros, “carissima a Botis boio-celtico”», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 158 (2006): 89–92, at 92 n.20
• Vittorio Giovanni Rizzone, «Iscrizioni tardoantiche da Mineo (CT)», Epigraphica 71 (2009): 426–37, at 431 fig.2

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

12/8/2025