The Inscription of Eutychiana
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal panel of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 59 × 197 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 37 × 177 cm
- Letters Height
- 4.5-6.5 cm
Palaeographic comment
Dextrograde direction, horizontal layout, square module, regular ductus, triangular-shaped interpuncts, centered layout.
M consists of four oblique strokes.
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Cicria Eutychiane (!). Iulius Yperan
=
thes, coniugi ⸢c⸣arissime (!)
castissimeque (!).
Cicrius Eutyches et Cicria Mansueta,
parentes,
filiae dulcissime (!).
APPARATUS CRITICUS
2. ⸢K⸣ARISSIMAE, Lettich 1994
CASTISSIMAEQVE, Lettich 1994
.
5. DVLCISSIMAE, Lettich 1994
.
TRANSLATION
To Cicria Eutychiana. Iulius Yperanthes to his dearest and most chaste wife. Cicrius Eutyches and Circria Mansueta, her parents, to their sweetest daughter.
PEOPLE
Cicria Eutychiana
- NOMEN
- Cicria
- COGNOMEN
- Eutychiana
- GENS
- Cicria
- ORIGIN (of the name Eutychiana)
- greek
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- deceased
- RELATIONSHIP
- wife (→ Iulius Yperanthes)
- RELATIONSHIP
- daughter (→ Publius Atilius Cicrius Eutyches)
- RELATIONSHIP
- daughter (→ Cicria Mansueta)
- RELATIONSHIP
- sister (→ )
Iulius Yperanthes
- NOMEN
- Iulius
- COGNOMEN
- Yperanthes
- GENS
- Iulia
- ORIGIN (of the name Yperanthes)
- greek
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator
- RELATIONSHIP
- husband (→ Cicria Eutychiana)
- RELATIONSHIP
- son-in-law (→ Publius Atilius Cicrius Eutyches)
- RELATIONSHIP
- son-in-law (→ Cicria Mansueta)
Publius Atilius Cicrius Eutyches
- PRAENOMEN
- Publius
- NOMEN
- Atilius
- NOMEN
- Cicrius
- COGNOMEN
- Eutyches
- GENS
- Atilia
- GENS
- Cicria
- ORIGIN (of the name Eutyches)
- greek
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator
- RELATIONSHIP
- husband (→ Cicria Mansueta)
- RELATIONSHIP
- father (→ Cicria Eutychiana)
- RELATIONSHIP
- father (→ )
- RELATIONSHIP
- father-in-law (→ Iulius Yperanthes)
Cicria Mansueta
- NOMEN
- Cicria
- COGNOMEN
- Mansueta
- GENS
- Cicria
- ORIGIN (of the name Mansueta)
- latin
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator
- RELATIONSHIP
- wife (→ Publius Atilius Cicrius Eutyches)
- RELATIONSHIP
- mother (→ Cicria Eutychiana)
- RELATIONSHIP
- mother (→ )
- RELATIONSHIP
- mother-in-law (→ Iulius Yperanthes)
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1876b, 131, n. 1. |
| Bertolini 1877, 30, n. 15. |
| CIL V 8686 |
| Lettich 1994, 266-269, n. 185. |
- EDR
-
EDR097846
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 19-11-2007
COMMENTARY
The sarcophagus of Cicria Eutychiana was commissioned by her husband Iulius Yperanthes and her parents Cicrius Eutyches and Cicria Mansueta. All the cognomina present here are clearly of servile origin. The parents share the same gentilicon: Eutyches' wife was either his freedwoman or had been manumitted by the same master. The deceased's cognomen seems to have been formed by adding the common suffix -an- to her father's name.
According to Lettich, the final -e is not a misspelling for the diphthong -ae, but a nominative ending of the first declension used here as an indeclinable form. However, Lettich overlooks that this spelling error occurs twice in the second line: it is therefore likely that the cognomen Eutychiana was simply declined incorrectly. The Cicrii are present in two other nearby sarcophagi (The Inscription of Mansueta and The inscription of Eutychides).