ISic001297: Epitaph for Eukarpos (?)
- ID
- ISic001297
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.1: Franz: τὸν [τάφον εἰ ζητεῖς τίνος ἀνέρος, ὦ παροδεῖτα] (e.g.); after ν there is a low curved trace (possibly a Ε, Θ, Ο, Σ, Ω)
- line.2: Franz: εἰμὶ Ἐρεχ[θείδου --- γῆν ος (sic) ποτε τήνδε] (e.g.); Kaibel: ΕΡΕΧΘ (e.g. εἰμὶ Ἐρεχ[θειδῶν); Ferrara ΕΤΕΧΩ; Korhonen ἐπέχω[ν?] (other possibilities are ἐπεχώ[ρησα] or ἐπεχω[ρήσας])
- line.3: Franz ἦλθεν Ἀθ[ήνηθεν ---] (e.g.)
- line.4: Franz [κ]αὶ δῆ[μ]ο[ν ---] (e.g.); Ἅιδην Korhonen
- line.5: Franz ἔζησα ἐτ[η ---]; Kaibel ἐπ[τὰ]
- lines.6-8: For Franz the verse was a pentametre: [τῶν] γ[ο]ν[έ]ων [οὐδεὶς] τύμβον ἔδε[ι]μ[εν] ἐ[μοί]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two fragments of a marble plaque: the second one, now lost, was read by Kaibel, according to whom it belonged to the same inscription (“sine dubio eiusdem lapidis est; sed quomodo adnectendum sit non liquet”). The first fragment is intact on the left and below, damaged at the top and on the right. According to Kaibel’s drawing, the second fragment was intact on the right and below.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 247
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The inscription may be an epigram in hexameters (with the elision εἰμ' ἐπεχ- at l. 2), but it is difficult to identify the nature of the text because the two fragments do not join (Korhonen questions whether the two fragments belong to the same inscription). It is likely that l. 4, which includes the age of the deceased, was in prose. Franz and Kaibel read at l. 2 (frA) εἰμὶ Ἐρεχ[θείδου and εἰμὶ Ἐρεχθειδῶν respectively, assuming that the epitaph was for an Athenian man, possibly named Εὔκαρπος (frB l. 1), but Korhonen’s reading invalidates this interpretation. The inscription is too fragmentary to give a general interpretation: γενύων at l. 6 (frA) may refer to the down on cheeks and represents the lost youth of the deceased, as in other epigraphic epigrams (e.g. IG 9/1 879, IGLNovae 107, EAD 30.482). For the name Εὔκαρπος in Sicily, see LGPN 3A 116 (Ferrua 1989: 50 no. 193).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492902
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101667
- PHI: 140789
- PHI: 316204
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5732d (fr.a only)
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 383 no. 5
- 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 14.0474
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 48
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/16/2022