Epitaph for Grapte’s husband Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing James Cummings conversion to EpiDoc James Chartrand site construction and encoding Valeria Vitale editing of geo data Michael Metcalfe museum data collection Alex Antoniou EpiDoc editing and English translation Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes Marta Fogagnolo editing, translation and commentary I.Sicily ISic001292 492896 39101661 140782 316220 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001292 10.5281/zenodo.4352319 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania 309 Ancient Greek

Two joining fragments of marble plaque. The right fragment is damaged at the top, left and lower right corner, the left fragment is lost, registered by Stevenson and joined with the other by Ferrua.

marble plaque chiselled

Regular letters with serifs, slightly decreasing in size, rhomboid Ο, squared Ε.

Lines 1-5 20-30 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 Second half of 1st century CE or 2nd century CE

Dimensions of frA: 16.5 17 1-4

Original discovery not recorded. Observed by Kaibel in Museo di San Nicolò l’Arena, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione dei Benedettini (formerly sala VI.117) None

Dimensions of frB: 13.5 10 not recorded

Original discovery not recorded. Observed by Stevenson (cod. vat. lat. 10574 f.171r) around 1880 “nel corridore” of the Antiquarium comunale None

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νᾳ ἄν δρὶ ζήσαντι ἔτη με · Γρά πτη σύμβιος ἐποίησεν
Text based on photograph Ferrua: e.g. Κλ(αυδίῳ) Μηνᾷ Γραπτη from Stevensons’ drawing; Kaibel: Γρα[φικ]ὴ (?) Kaibel, Ferrua: σύμβιος; Korhonen suggests also συμβίῳ (even if less probably than σύμβιος)

To the husband [---] who lived for 45 years, his wife Grapte set this up.

Al marito [---] che visse 45 anni, la sua sposa Grapte realizzò questo.

The epitaph presents the (less common in Catania) formula of the name of the deceased in dative with the indication of the age and the name of the dedicant in the nominative (for another example in Catania, see IG 14.504 = ISic001325 and Korhonen 2004: 87). Σύμβιος is referred to the wife of the deceased, who is responsible for the realization of the tomb (less probable is the integration συμβί[ῳ], since the deceased is already qualified through ἀνδρί): the name Γράπτη is attested in Latin inscriptions of South Italy dated to the first imperial age (LGPN 3A: 103, see CIL 10.2290, 10.3090). The name of the deceased in the lacuna ends in -νᾶς.

14.0468 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 92 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 Ferrua 1941 179 no. 42 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001456 87 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028