Donation of a tomb 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 ISic001361 492975 39101741 140865 316265 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001361 10.5281/zenodo.4353543 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania 262 Ancient Greek

Concave marble plaque set in plaster in modern times.

marble plaque 14.5 21.5 1-5 chiselled

Letters with serifs: Α with broken bar, quadrate Ε, square lunate Σ, rhomboid Θ, cursive Ω (Ω at l. 5 as a Μ upside down). Letters at ll. 1-2 are slightly larger than letters in the following lines.

Lines 1-6 11-22 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 4th century CE (probably, according to Korhonen) Original discovery not recorded, probably from Catania (possibly Siracusa). Observed by Blackburne (cod. Oxford, coll. Onions, f. 6) and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI, 70). None

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Ὁ κύριό ς ε μου Εὐάγριος ἐχαρίσατό μοι τὸν τόπον ἐμοὶ Θεοδούλῳ καὶ κῖντε Κωστάντις καὶ Κεκιλία
Text based on photographs ΟΚΟΡΙΟΕΜΟΥ lapis Torremuzza, Ferrara: Εὐαίριος; Franz: Εὐκαίριος; Kaibel, Ferrua, Agnello, Wessel: Εὐάγριος Franz: μου; Torremuzza, Kaibel, Wessel: ἐμοῦ; Ferrua: μοι; Ferrara, Agnello, Korhonen, lapis: ἐμοί Κωπάντις lapis, Torremuzza, Ferrara; Franz: Κωτιανης; Kaibel, Ferrua, Agnello, Wessel; Korhonen: Κωσταντίς

My lord Euagrios freely gave this tomb to me, Theodoulos, and here lie Kostantis and Kekilia.

Il mio signore Euagrios ha donato questa tomba a me, Theodoulos, e qui giacciono Kostantis e Kaikilia.

This inscription attests to the donation of a tomb (denoted by the word τόπος as recurring in Christian inscriptions) by Euagrios to Theodoulos, in which Kostantis and Kaikilia (probably his daughters, according to Führer-Schultze 1907: 13) are buried: donations of tombs are not frequent in Christian epigraphy, where there are more mentions of the purchase of the tomb (see ICR 980, Grossi Gondi 1920: 248). The term κύριος does not have the meaning of “master” here and does not allude to a slavery condition of the beneficiary (as Führer-Schultze 1907: 13), but has a connotation of respect as in IG 14.525 = ISic000964. The names Θεόδουλος, Κωστάντις (= Κωστάντιος), Κεκιλία (= Καικιλία) and Εὐάγριος are attested in Christian inscriptions, but the last is not attested elsewhere in Sicily: Θεόδουλος is attested also in a Christian inscription from Catania IG 14.538 = ISic001357, Κωστάντις in an inscription from Tauromenion (3rd-4th cent. CE), Καικιλία is frequent in Sicily (LGPN 3A:227). As Korhonen (2004: 257) remarks, the formula and onomastics of the inscription could be from Syracuse, but its presence in the collezione Biscari as early as 1749, when Blackburne observed it, and the fact that there are no other Syracusan Christian inscriptions in the collection argues in favour of a provenance from Catania.

Torremuzza 1769 169 no.36 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002084 Torremuzza 1784 180 no.41 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002083 Ferrara 1829 388 no.6 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002005 14.0542 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 183 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 3.5710 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001252 5240 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000817 852 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000394 Agnello 1953 no.53 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002211 Ferrua 1941 241 no.138 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001456 Führer and Schultze 1907 13 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001979 Grossi Gondi 1920 248 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002241