ISic001322: Epitaph for Saboukis Kallimorphos
- ID
- ISic001322
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on photographs;
- line.5: Franz: πατρῶνι; Manganaro interpreted Πάτρων as a proper name
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, set in plaster in modern times.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 21 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 0.5-5.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-6: 17-26mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not recordedmm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Ferrara states 'found at Catania', but this remains uncertain
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 289
- Autopsy
- Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino del Cortile, Collezione Biscari, formerly sala VI, 97.
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (probably, according to Korhonen) (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The epitaph presents the traditional structure with the name of the deceased, the indication of his age (with the verb ζάω in the aorist form) and a second sentence with the name of the dedicant in the nominative form and the dedication verb (ποιέω in the aorist form). The formulae and the palaeography are characteristic of Catania and of a 2nd-century CE dating, according to Korhonen (2004: 229; contra Manganaro 1959: 242, who dated the inscription to the 4th cent. CE). The epitaph was dedicated to a libertus Saboukis Kallimorphos by his patron Saboukis Zoilos (πάτρων is not part of the proper name of the dedicant, as Manganaro suggested: see J. and L. Robert, BE 1961: 268 nr. 861). The patron belonged to the gens Sabucia, who seems to have owned several latifundia in Sicily, as numerous toponyms attest: see Manganaro 1959.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492928
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39101693
- PHI: 140816
- PHI: 316236
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 129 no.43
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 137 no.50
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5726
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 340 no.1
- 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 14.0501
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 127
- Discussion
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1961.0861
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Motivi di religiosità pagana nei mosaici di Piazza Armerina», Archeologia classica 11 (1959), at 242 n. 5
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 229
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/22/2022