Fragment of an 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 ISic003301 645565 316287 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic003301 10.5281/zenodo.4358109 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania Ancient Greek

Left fragment of a round marble plaque (the rear is worked in stripes). The epigraphic field is framed by a moulding.

marble plaque 21.5 21 1.3 chiselled

Thin letters not rubricated: lunate Σ (and perhaps squared Ε).

Lines 1-4 30-38 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 4th — 5th century CE Original discovery not recorded, but probably from Catania. Observed by Korhonen in the courtyard of Museo Civico. None

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Taxonomies for ISicily controlled values

ISicily glyphs authority list

Julian Calendar

 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin Hebrew Phoenician Punic Oscan Elymian Sikel Sikan funerary James Cummings autogenerated EpiDoc output from database Alex Antoniou Epidoc editing Simona Stoyanova normalised Unicode Simona Stoyanova updated list of languages Simona Stoyanova restructured bibliography Updated Zenodo DOI renumbered files, uris and references Marta Fogagnolo revised the text encoding, added dimensions, translations and commentary I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ΗΛΣΕ ζησ ἡμέρας
Text based on photograph Korhonen: ΣΛΣΙ (or ΕΛΕ) Korhonen: ἡμ[έρας]

The inscription is an epitaph, as can be seen from l. 2 in which there must have been the verb ζάω in the aorist indicative or participle and from l. 3 in which Korhonen’s restoration ἡμ[έρας] indicating days is very likely (in the lacuna there must also have been the indication of the years and months lived by the deceased). According to Korhonen, the inscription and the frame are not contemporary.

54.0913 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000796 211 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028