CO3 Epitaph of the Slave Graeca

CO3 Epitaph of the Slave Graeca

Reference CIL II 1580, cf. EE VIII p. 352 = II2/5, 399; CLE ad 1474 | Description | Type of letters | Location | Chronology | Edición epigráfica | Translation | Apparatus | Commentary | Type of verse | Text divided into verses and metric signs | Images | Bibliography | Link to DB | Author |

CO3 Epitaph of the Slave Graeca

Description

  • Idno filename 22/01/0097
  • Type of inscription: Sepulcralis
  • Support: Stela
  • Material Description: Piedra de mina.
  • Conservation status: Rota por el ángulo superior derecho y por la parte inferior. Orificio redondo en parte superior izquierda, probablemente por reutilización como quicio de puerta.
  • Dimensions height/width/depth (cm): 48/21.5/10.5
  • Epigraphic field:
    • Layout: "Ordinatio" no muy buena. Interpunciones triangulares.     
  • Preserved

Type of letters

  • Font:Rustic capital
  • Letter size:4-1,5 cm
  • Description of the letters:Letra con tendencia a la rústica, decreciendo.

Location

  • Place of discovery: En Castro del Río, en la calle de Garci Pérez en casa de fulano Castroviejo, DÍAZ RIVAS apud STYLOW. Redescubierta en 1978, entre las calles de Baño y Garci-Pérez (PUERTA - STYLOW 1985, 319 n. 3).
  • Geolocation
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  • Conservation location: Depósito Municipal de Castro del Río (Córdoba).
  • Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Córdoba / Castro del Río
  • Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Astigitanus

Chronology

  • Inscription's dating: Between year 0 and year 30

Type of verse

  • Type of verse: Elegiac couplet
  • Verse/line correspondence: Yes
  • Prose/verse distinction: Yes

Edición epigráfica

Tẹ ḷapis

optestor ▴ le-

vitẹṛ ▴ super

ossa ▴ residas

5      ne ▴ nostro ▴ dole-

at ▴ co⁽nd⁾itus ▴ offi-

cio

(vac.)

Graeca ▴ ser(va) ▴ hìc

10    sita ▴ est ▴ vale

(vac.)

Ìacchus ▴ vir ▴ et

[‑ ‑ ‑]d(e) ▴ s(uo) ▴ d(edit?)

Text divided into verses and metric signs

Te, lapis, optestor leviter super ossa residas, lkk|ll|l/kk|l/kk|lkk|l~

ne nostro doleat conditus officio  ll|lkk|l||lkk|lkk|~

Translation

Te ruego, lápida, que te asientes suavemente sobre sus huesos; que por nuestro empeño no sufra una vez enterrada. La esclava Greca está enterrada aquí. Adiós. Yaco, su marido y [---] lo hizo (?) a sus expensas.

Bibliography

Hübner, II 1580 (inde Bücheler, CLE ad 1474; Cholodniak 1904, 1212; Vives, ILER 5791) et id., cf. EE VIII p. 352; Puerta – Stylow 1985, 319–323 n. II cum im. phot. (AE 1985, 561 omisit v. 8–11); Stylow, II2/5, 399 cum im. phot.; Fernández Martínez – Carande, CLEB, CO14, cum im. phot, quae in linguam Hispanicam verterunt; Cugusi 2012, 39. – Cf. Fernández Martínez 1998–99, II, 146; Hernández Pérez 2001a, 243; Massaro 2014, 65–102.

Apparatus

1 te lapis Stylow. – 2 obtestor Hübner. – 10–11 Iaccus vir d.d Hübner, d(e) s(uo) d(at) Stylow, II2/5. – 11 [patronus(?)] d(e) suppl. Cugusi dubitans.

Commentary

Elegiac distich; in this case, it is clearly a use of a model designed for a man (conditus, l. 6, cf., IHV p. 91), what is relatively frequent in this type of form (cf. CLE 723); the male ending has got moreover, compared to the feminine one condita, the advantage of perfectly fitting in the meter. L. 2 optestor pro obtestor.

In the subscriptum the name and the social status of the deceased are specified: Graeca ser(va), as well as that of the dedicant: Iacchus; the presence of the conjunction et in l. 10 could lead us to think that there are two dedicants (a husband and one of her sons: Stylow, II2/5 proposes a heres), in which case, we could develop d(ederunt) in l. 11. However, nothing prevents us from supposing that there was a sole dedicant vir et [sodalis] (cf. Puerta-Stylow, 1985, p. 322). As for the Greek cognomina, cf., for Graeca, frequent for slaves and liberti, Kajanto 1982, p. 204; for the much more rare Iacchus, cf. Solin 1982, p. 311 ff. (who only registers three, two of which incerti and the other one as the name of a slave).

 

Images

Photo author: Fotografía de CIL II2/5, 399, tomada por STYLOW en 1983.

Link to DB

Author

  • Author:R. Carande Herrero, C. Fernández Martínez
  • Last Update2025-09-10 07:35:13
  • Autopsy date:2002

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