ISic001322: Epitaph for Saboukis Kallimorphos

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001322
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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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 cmwidth: 23 cmdepth: 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

funerary

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.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/22/2022