ISic001389: Greek funerary inscription of Kallistratos
- ID
- ISic001389
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Gualtherus and later editors;
- line.1: Gualtherus: ΚΑΜΙΣ (followed by Torremuzza)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- The stone is one of three described as 'petra nigra' by Gualtherus (1624: 50), but neither state of conservation nor dimensions are recorded.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- volcanic
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is presented as split over three lines
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Adranon
- Provenance found
- Described by Gualtherus (1624) as coming from the ruins popularly identified with the shrine of the god Hadranus (not identified). All later editions derive from Gualtherus.
Current location
Lost.
Date
A date in the period 4th — 1st century BCE seems most likely, but it is impossible to be certain in the absence of further information (400 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The stone is presented in the edition of Gualtherus (1624, p.50 nr. 337) under the same heading as ISic001386, and so the same report appears to apply, namely ‘petra nigra’, state of conservation and dimensions not recorded; it is said to have come from the ruins popularly equated with the site of the temple of the local divinity Adranos. It is not clear why Kaibel (IG XIV, 570) says ‘admodum recens reperta’, i.e. only recently recovered.The name Καμιστρατος recorded by Gualtherus is not attested, and the emendation of Μ to ΛΛ proposed by Franz, reflecting a misreading of the original, is straightforward. Καλλίστρατος is common, with a couple of other attestations from Sicily. The name Ῥάτωρ is not otherwise attested; however, a name with an indigenous origin is possible, as a couple of possibly cognate forms are attested: Ῥατορώ on a lead tablet, possibly from Terravecchia di Cuti, although the reading is far from certain (Arena, Iscrizioni, II, no.117A / Dubois, IGDS I, no.176 a); and Ῥατορᾶς on a vase inscription from Montagna di Marzo (Herbessos?) (Kokalos 14-15 (1968-9) p. 200). Earlier editors speculated that this might not be a name but the title of rhetor, and Osann (1834, p. 98 n. 1) offered several alternative readings and identifications, and in particular made the very tenuous suggestion that this might be the Attic rhetor Kallistratos, buried in Sicily after being condemned by the Athenians. Franz in CIG 3.5739 was politely dismissive (rightly).
It is impossible to date this text, in the absence of further information, although it is most likely to belong to the Hellenistic period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 50 no. 337
- 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 168 cl. 14 no. 27
- 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 178 cl. 14 no. 30
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5739
- F Osann, Sylloge inscriptionum antiquarum graecarum et latinarum (Leipzig, Darmstadt: C. G. Leske, 1834), at 99
- 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 14.0570
- S. P. Russo, Illustrazione storico-archeologica di Adernò (Atesa, 1911), at 60
- J.R.W. Prag, «Epigrafia», in Museo Regionale Saro Franco di Adrano. Le Collezioni Archeologiche, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Nicola Franceso Neri, vol. 2, 3 voll. (Palermo: Regione siciliana, 2015), 315–30, at 318 no. C
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 2/17/2022