Epitaph for Euskia Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing James Cummings conversion to EpiDoc Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding Valentina Mignosa encoding text division and checking the edition Robert Crellin lemmatization and linguistic analysis Alessia CoccatoPetrographic observation and analysis I.Sicily ISic001516 645016 333765 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001516 10.5281/zenodo.4354259 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Siracusa Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi 14600 Ancient Greek

A marble plaque, approximately square in form, intact on left and upper edges, but irregular on right and broken along the lower edge towards the right hand side. The plaque had plaster on both front and rear when found, from later re-use as a tomb cover.

marble plaque 22 25.2 3

chiselled

Use of lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega, alpha frequently with oblique crossbar descending left, and some ligatures.

Line 1 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Sicilia Syracusae Siracusa 37.08415, 15.27628 Early 5th century CE (Sgarlata) Found by Orsi in the 'Cappella di Eusebio' in the southern region of the Catacomb of S.Giovanni, on 22 June 1894. Now on display in sector F of the Archaeological Museum.37.0769001,15.2844883 None

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin Hebrew Phoenician Punic Oscan Elymian Sikel Sikan funerary James Cummings autogenerated EpiDoc output from database Simona Stoyanova normalised Unicode Simona Stoyanova updated list of languages Valentina Mignosa encoded text division, cleaned up the autogenerated text and checked the edition Simona Stoyanova restructured bibliography Updated Zenodo DOI renumbered files, uris and references Jonathan Prag revised from publication and added image Robert Crellin added local IDs to edition elements I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo Museo Archaeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi. I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo Museo Archaeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi.
Εὐσκία ἡ ἄμεντος ζήσασα χρηστῶς καὶ σεμνῶςἔτη πλῖον ἔλαττον κε ἀνε παύσετο τῇ ἑορτῇ τῆς κυ ρίας μου Λουκίας εἰς ἢν οὔκ ἐστιν ἐνκώμειον εἰπεῖν χρηστειανή πισ τή τέλιος οὖσα εὐχα ριστοῦσα τῷ εἰδίῳ ἀν δρὶ πολλὰς εὐχαρισ τίας α 𐆠 ω εὐομείλητος
Text of Sgarlata 1998 controlled against photograph for detailing of ligatures

Euskia l'incensurabile, che visse onestamente e nobilmente anni piu' o meno 25, mori' nella festa della signora mia Lucia, per la quale non e' necessario pronunciare encomio. Cristiana fedele (e) perfetta, gradita al proprio marito per le (sue) molte grazie, affabile

Epitaph of Euskia, who died in the festival of Saint Lucia - for whose cult this is the earliest evidence (martyred c.304 AD).

2004 656 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001283 2004 54.0942 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000796 1981 31.0842 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000796 Agnello 1953 no.20 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002211 Orsi 1895 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001714 Guarducci 1967-1978 4.526-528 no.4 fig.164 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000193 Pace 1949 15 fig.2 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001690 Feissel 1981 136 n.13 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002009 Manganaro 1988 85 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001427 Sgarlata 1998 52-54 fig. 21 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002761 Sgarlata 2003 113-116 fig.69 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001584 Lamagna and Amato 2014 23 fig.7 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001892