Epitaph for Eukarpos (?) Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing James Cummings conversion to EpiDoc James Chartrand site construction and encoding Valeria Vitale editing of geo data Michael Metcalfe museum data collection Alex Antoniou EpiDoc editing Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes Marta Fogagnolo editing, translation and commentary I.Sicily ISic001297 492902 39101667 140789 316204 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001297 10.5281/zenodo.4352327 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania 247 Ancient Greek

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.

marble plaque chiselled Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 1st — 2nd century CE

Dimensions of frA: 16 13 0.7-4

Irregular letters, Ε, Σ and Ω lunate, Μ cursive.

Lines 1-8 7-12 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Original discovery not recorded. Observed by Ferrara in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino del cortile, Collezione Biscari (formerly sala VI.55). None

Dimensions of frB: not recorded not recorded not recorded

Lines 1-8 not recorded Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Original discovery not recorded. Observed by Kaibel in Museo Biscari. None

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τὸν εἴμι ἐπέχων ἤλθεν ἀφ εἰς Ἅιδην Ο ἔζησα ἐτη γενύων τύμβον Ε δε μου Ε
Μ Εὐκαρπον ἑπτὰ πρὶν ΕΙΡΑΙ ὑπὸ πνευμα ματι ον
Text based on photographs 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) 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]) Franz ἦλθεν Ἀθ[ήνηθεν ---] (e.g.) Franz [κ]αὶ δῆ[μ]ο[ν ---] (e.g.); Ἅιδην Korhonen Franz ἔζησα ἐτ[η ---]; Kaibel ἐπ[τὰ] For Franz the verse was a pentametre: [τῶν] γ[ο]ν[έ]ων [οὐδεὶς] τύμβον ἔδε[ι]μ[εν] ἐ[μοί]

I am [---] he came from [---] to Hades [---] I lived for [---] years [---] of cheeks [---] the tomb [---]

Eukarpos --- seven before --- spirit.

Sono [---] giunse da [---] all’Ade [---] vissi [---] anni [---] delle guance [---] la tomba [---]

Eukarpos --- sette prima --- spirito.

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).

14.0474 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 48 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 3.5732d (fr.a only) https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001252 Ferrara 1829 383 no. 5 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002005 Ferrua 1989 50 no. 19 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001995