ISic001173: Funerary inscription for Sosis
- ID
- ISic001173
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large block of grey limestone, built into the wall of a church. The lower right corner is missing, and the upper middle of the face shows cracking. Only the front face is visible in the current setting.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 88 cm, width: 103.5 cm, depth: unknown cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Greek letters across the upper part of the face; the text fills the width of the stone on both lines
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Somewhat crude, large letters, probably later Hellenistic: sigma has parallel top and bottom strokes; omega is closed, tending to elliptical in form; mu has vertical first and last strokes, mid-point descends half-way only; phi has small circular eye and extended vertical; kappa has short tails; alpha has broken bar; epsilon has short middle stroke
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 85mm
- Line 2: 75-80mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 10-15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cephaloedium
- Provenance found
- In re-use in the external wall to the left of the main entrance of the Chiesa SS. Sacramento, Piazza Duomo
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Cefalù, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- 2018-07-16 Prag
Date
Later Hellenistic (letter forms) (200 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
SEG 37.763 reports the observation of Masson that Κραφάγε should be an epithet, meaning 'eater of meat'. Νύμφων is either the patronymic (in which case the genitive ending has either been omitted, or the right edge of the stone was trimmed for re-use in the church wall), or else a second name in the Sicilian fashion, with Κραφάγε then an additional epithet.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5593
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 351
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 58.1045
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 37.0763
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di antichità e di epigrafia siceliote», Archeologia Classica 17 (1965): 183–210, at 200 tav. 72.1
- Amedeo Tullio, «Saggio sulla topografia e sulle antichità di Cefalù», Kokalos 20 (1974): 119–51, at 131 n. 70
- Renato Arena, «Spigolature siceliote», Acme. Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano 40, fasc. 3 (1987): 5–16, at 14-15
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Incontri di culture a Cefalù. L’epitafio di Pompeia», in Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici, a c. di A.S. Giammellaro, vol. 2, 3 voll. (Palermo: Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2005), 849–50, at 849
- Montalbano (2008) at 177 VS 4 tav. 33.3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/2/2022