Epitaph Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing Marta Fogagnolo editing, translation and commentary 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 Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes I.Sicily ISic001329 492935 39101700 140823 140824 140825 316279 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001329 10.5281/zenodo.4353473 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania Ancient Greek

Two joining fragments of marble plaque, preserving the upper left corner, missing below and to the right; part of the lower left margin was previously preserved / seen by earlier editors.

marble plaque 10 10.5 1.7 chiselled

Cursive Μ, Ο in smaller size; lunate epsilon according to Kaibel. The second line is indented.

Lines 1-3 15-22 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 Second half of 3rd century CE or 4th century CE Original discovery not recorded, but probably Catania. Observed by Amico in Museo Biscari and by Kaibel (who saw more of it than is now preserved); later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore, Collezione Biscari. None

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Τίμη καὶ Ποιμ ἑαυτοῖς καὶ το ῖς ἰδίοις ἐποίησαν
Text based on photographs Kaibel: Τίμη; Ferrua: Τιμη[σίθεος; Korhonen: Τιμή Kirchhoff read ΠΟΙΩ which Ferrua (1941) corrected in ΠΟΙΗ (ἐ|ποίη[σε) but a Μ is clearly legible. Later, Ferrua (1989) suggested the supplement Ποιμ[ένιος] Ferrua: ἑαυτ[ῷ]; Kaibel, Korhonen ἑαυτ[οῖς] Kaibel: τὸ[ν τόπον] (scil. ἠγόρασαν)]; Ferrua: το[ῖς ἰδίο]|[ις πᾶσιν]; Korhonen: το[ῖς ἰδίοις]|[ἐποίησαν?]

Time and Poim--- made (this) for themselves and their relatives.

Time e Poim--- realizzarono (questo) per loro stessi e per i loro familiari.

The structure of the epitaph is influenced by Latin epigraphy (fecit sibi et suis) and recurs often (but not exclusively) in Christian epitaphs: for this reason, Ferrua believed that the epitaph was Christian. The formula is used to indicate the dedicant, who is not yet dead, but the verb ζάω is often omitted (see Korhonen 2004: 88-89). According to Kaibel, followed by LGPN 3A: 429, Τίμη, attested in the imperial age also in SEG 31.1327A, is the name of the first deceased, whereas Τιμησίθεος suggested by Ferrua is not attested in that age. The second deceased could have been a Ποιμήν or a Ποιμένιος (as Ferrua suggested): the latter is attested in Christian age by literary sources. On the names, see Solin 1982: 1030 and 1256.

14.0508 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 199 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 4.9512 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001252 Ferrua 1941 243 no.141 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001456 Ferrua 1989 no.443 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001995