Epitaph for Saboukis Kallimorphos Jonathan Prag Jonathan Prag John Fell OUP Research Fund ERC Advanced Grant no.885040 Jonathan Prag original data collection and editing Marta Fogagnolo editing, translation and commentary 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 and English translation Simona Stoyanova standardisation of template and tidying up encoding system automated or batch processes I.Sicily ISic001322 492928 39101693 140816 316236 http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscription/ISic001322 10.5281/zenodo.4353449 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Italy Sicily Catania Museo Civico di Catania 289 Ancient Greek

Marble plaque, set in plaster in modern times.

marble plaque 21 23 0.5-5.5 chiselled

Letters with serifs, rhomboid Ο and Φ, angular cursive Ω at l. 5 (as a flipped Μ); ος at l. 2, τη at l. 3, ος and ρων at l. 5 in ligature. Triangle-shaped interpuncts at ll. 3, 4, 5, 6.

Lines 1-6 17-26 Interlineation line 1 to 2 not recorded Catina Catania 37.49223, 15.07041 2nd century CE (probably, according to Korhonen) Ferrara states 'found at Catania', but this remains uncertain Observed by Torremuzza and Kaibel in Museo Biscari, later by Korhonen in magazzino del Cortile, Collezione Biscari, formerly sala VI, 97. None

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Σαβοῦκις Καλλίμορφος ἔζησεν · ἔτη · · λβ · Σαβούκις · Ζωίλος · πάτρων · ἐποίησε ·
Text based on photographs Franz: πατρῶνι; Manganaro interpreted Πάτρων as a proper name

Saboukis Kallimorphos, lived for 32 years. Saboukis Zoilos, his patron (made this).

Saboukis Kallimorphos visse 32 anni. Saboukis Zoilos, suo patrono (realizzò questo).

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.

Torremuzza 1769 129 no.43 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002084 Torremuzza 1784 137 no.50 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002083 Ferrara 1829 340 no.1 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002005 14.0501 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001072 127 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028 3.5726 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001252 Manganaro 1959 242 n. 5 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10002246 1961.0861 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10001282 229 https://biblio.inscriptiones.org/epig10000028