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 ISic001375 492989 39101756 140881 316263 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001375 10.5281/zenodo.4353565 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania 296 Ancient Greek

Fragment of a marble plaque, broken top, right and below; embedded in a plaster plaque for display purposes, so sides and rear not visible.

marble plaque 17 26 1-6 chiselled Line 1-6 20-25 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 4th — 5th century CE Found at the east of Porta Stesichori, close to the Convento del Carmine, it became part of Alessi’s collection (reported by Alessi as one of several find in the years preceding 1833). Observed by Mavilla at the University of Catania and by Stevenson (Cod. Vat. Lat. 10574) in Antiquarium comunale, later by Korhonen in Magazzino del cortile, Museo Civico, formerly sala VI 104. None

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Ἐνθάδε κεῖται Δι ον υσι ζήσασ ἀμέμπτως ἔτη λε τελευτᾷ τῇ πρ ὸ νωνῶν Σεπτ εμβρίων ἡμέ ρᾳ Κυρίου ἐν εἰρήνῃ
Text based on photograph Kirchhoff, Korhonen: ἐνθάδε κεῖται Traces of ΔΙ (or ΔΥ) on the stone registered also by Mavilla, Stevenson has ΔΙΟΝ. Kirchhoff: [ζήσας ἔτη], Korhonen: [ζήσασ-] Alessi: ΑΜΕΜΠΟΣ, Kirkchhoff, Kaibel, Wessel: ἄμεμπ[τ]ος; Ferrua, Korhonen: ἀμέμπτω[ς] Kirchhoff: [καὶ ἄλυπ]|[ος], Ferrua: [ζήσασα ἔτη], Korhonen: ἀμέμπτω[ς ἔτη] Alessi, Wessel: λκ; Kirchhoff does not register the numeral; Kaibel: λβ; Ferrua, Korhonen: λε Kirchhoff, Kaibel, Wessel, Ferrua: τ[ῆι πρὸ -]; Korhonen: τ[ῇ πρ(ὸ) -] Kirchhoff, Kaibel: Σε[πτεμβρίων]; Wessel: Σε[πτ. ἡμέρᾳ]; Korhonen: Σε[πτ(εμβρίων) ἡμε|ρᾷ] Kirchhoff: κυρι[ακῇ ἡμέρᾷ]; Wessel: κυρίου; Korhonen: Κυρίου ἐ[ν εἰρήνῇ?]

Here lies(?) Dionysia/Dionysios, having lived blameless for 35 years. s/he died the [-] day before the nones of September, on the day of the Lord. In peace (?).

Qui giace(?) Dionysia/Dionysios, che visse in modo irreprensibile per 35 anni. Morì [-] giorni prima delle None di Settembre nel giorno del Signore. In pace (?).

The restoration of the ἐνθάδε κεῖται formula at l. 1 is highly probable since this is the most frequent structure in Christian epitaphs in Catania, followed by the participle of ζάω to express the age of the deceased and by the verb τελευτάω to specify the date of death (the examples without the ἐνθάδε κεῖται formula are rare and usually the name of the deceased follows the verb τελευτάω, as in IG 14.551 = ISic001370). Ferrua considers the deceased to be a woman and restores ζήσασα at l. 2, whereas Korhonen thinks he can identify the deceased with a Διονυσίος or Διονυσία because of the high frequency of these two names in Catania and indeed the space would fit these names. On the use of ἀμέμπτως ζῆν in the Christian epitaphs in Catania, see IMusCatania 208 = ISic003299, IMusCatania 212 = ISic000647 and Korhonen 2004: 111.

14.0556 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 181 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 4.9499 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001252 1053 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000394 Alessi 1833 230 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002538 Alessi 1833 174 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002540 Ferrua 1989 117 no.448 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001995 p. 111 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028