ISic001173: Funerary inscription for Sosis
- ID
- ISic001173
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- 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
- 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
- Lettering
-
- 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 – 50 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 et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5593
- 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 14.0351
- ‘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
- M. G. Montalbano, «Reperti da vecchi scavi e ricognizioni», in Cefalù. La necropoli ellenistica I, a c. di A. Tullio (Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2008), 169–90, at 177 VS 4 tav. 33.3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 3/2/2022