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 and English translation Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes I.Sicily ISic001332 492940 39101705 140828 316246 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001332 10.5281/zenodo.4353481 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania Ancient Greek

Four fragments (of which three joining) of a marble plaque, damaged on the left and on the right corner. Fragments B and C (C1 and C2) were set in two different plasters in modern times.

marble plaque chiselled

Letters with serifs: Ε and Σ lunate, Μ cursive.

Lines 1-6 15-20 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 2nd century CE Original discovery not recorded, probably Catania. The modern annotation at l. 6 belongs to the Barons of Recalcaccia, among whom was Nicola, brother of Ignazio Biscari. Observed by Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino superiore and magazzino del cortile, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI 99 and VI 115). None 11.5 7 2.5 Magazzino superiore 291

Dimensions frB + frC:

29 20.5 2.5 sala VI.99, Magazzino del cortile 307

Dimensions frB + frC:

29 20.5 2.5 sala VI.115, Magazzino del cortile

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Julian Calendar

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Θ εοῖς Κ αταχθονίοις ος ἔζησεν ἔτ η ζ μῆνες ἐποίησεν αὐτοῦ ἡ σύμβιος μνήμης χάριν
Text based on photographs Kaibel did not read the first line

To the subterranean deities. ---os lived for -7 years, - months. His wife made (this) for his memory.

Agli dèi inferi. ---os visse -7 anni, - mesi. Sua moglie realizzò (questo) a sua memoria.

The epitaph presents the invocation to the subterranean deities, the name of the deceased in the lacuna, the indication of the age (partially in the lacuna) and in another sentence the dedicant (the proper name is not specified, but the relationship with the deceased is mentioned, as in IGMusPalermo 143 = ISic000797), the dedication verb and the formula μνήμης χάριν.

14.0511 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 155 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028