(Español) CA5

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Description

Idno filename 22/01/0069
Type of inscription: Sepulcralis
Material: Mármol
Conservation status: Fragment, remains of an inscription that has lost its four sides of reference.
Dimensions height/width/depth (cm): 5.5/8.3/1.2

Lyrics

Font:Capital cuadrada
Letter size:The letters vary in size between 1. 2 and 1. 5 cm
Description of the letters:The letters are square capitals with cursive features. Worthy of note are the <T>, with a lightly curved horizontal stroke, rising from left to right; the <A>, with strong feet and a crossbar which also rises from left to right, and the tail of the <Q>, very long and quite far below the writing box; the second <V> in l. 3 has an initial stylised stroke above the writing box.

Location

Place of discovery: The exact place of origin is unknown, except that it is from the city of Cádiz.
Geolocation

Conservation location: Conserved in the Berlin Museum, “Antikensammlung”.
Inventory number: Unknown.
Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Cádiz
Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Gaditanus / Gades

Chronology

Inscription's dating: Between year 70 and year 130
Dating explanation: Between the end of the 1st c. and the beginning of the 2nd c. AD from the paleography.

Type of verse

Verse/line correspondence: Si
Prose/verse distinction: No

Epigraphic edition

‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑

[‑ ‑ ‑]s ▴ ⁽an⁾(norum) ▴ VIIIỊ [‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑]ạm ▴ vita ▴ q⁽ua⁾+[‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑] ▴ superos ▴uni[‑ ‑ ‑]

5 [‑ ‑ ‑]+[‑ ‑ ‑]

‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑

Text divided into verses and metric signs

[‑ ‑ ‑]am vita qua[‑ ‑ ‑] [ ]|l/l|xl[ ]

[‑ ‑ ‑] superos uni[‑ ‑ ‑] [ ]kk|l/l|x[ ]

– – – – – –

Bibliography

Conze 1891, 1215; Hübner, II 5062 (inde Bücheler, CLE 1694, cuius exemplum in linguam Hispanicam vertit Fernández Martínez 1998-99; Cholodniak 1904, 1337); González Fernández, IRCa 319; Gómez Pallarès – del Hoyo – Martín Camacho 2005, CA 5; Gómez Pallarès in Fernández Martínez, CLEB, CA5.

Apparatus

1 …an(norum) VIIII HÜBNER, an VIIII GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ. – 2 multa qua CONZE 1891, quam HÜBNER, quai GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ. – 3 unu[m] SCHMIDT in scheda.

Comentary

All that can be said is that, of what has been conserved, l. 1 may be in prose since, as we read it, it contains the age of the deceased and ll. 2-3 contain the preserved verse part. Bücheler, through the proposed supplements, stated that it might be an epigraphical poem. It is now impossible to prove this. There may have been a praescriptum in prose with the age of the deceased, perhaps a woman, if we entertain the possibility that qua– represented a feminine relative pronoun (although it could also refer to vita). If it was verse, that part might have begun in l. 2, but it should be stated that there does not appear to be any graphic distinction, in what is left of the inscription, between what might have been prose and verse. In addition, a word like vita frequently occurs in the corpus of the CLE and therefore it contributes nothing per se to the hypothesis that this is a CLE; nor, of course, does it contradict it. Exactly the same occurs in the case of superos + uni[- – -], aggravated by the fact that this inscription is in fact the only example in the concordances of this iunctura. It is doubtful that this fragment is metrical.

Images

Photo author: M. G. Schmidt

Link to DB

Author

Author:J. Gómez Pallarès
Last Update2023-11-21 11:05:23

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