Christian funerary inscription

Christian funerary inscription

Reference CIL II2/ 7, 693 | Description | Lyrics | Location | Chronology | Epigraphic edition | Translation | Apparatus | Comentary | Type of verse | Text divided into verses and metric signs | Images | Bibliography | Link to DB | Author |

Christian funerary inscription

Description

  • Idno filename 22/01/0057
  • Type of inscription: Sepulcralis Christ.
  • Conservation status: Broken at the sides BACA ALFARO.
  • Epigraphic field:
    • Layout: If it is assumed that the CATTANEO manuscript sets out to reproduce the text accurately, the following can be stated: V with curved left arm which joins the right one halfway up; L longae; Q with a lengthened tail from the left part of the lobe.     
  • Lost

Location

  • Place of discovery: Found in Córdoba, at a house beside San Miguel BACA ALFARO.
  • Geolocation
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  • Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Córdoba
  • Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Cordubensis / Corduba

Chronology

  • Inscription's dating: Between year 650 and year 750
  • Dating explanation: Around the 7th c., perhaps 8th, from the letters as transcribed in the Cattaneo manuscript, according to Stylow.

Type of verse

  • Type of verse: Acentual
  • Verse/line correspondence: No
  • Prose/verse distinction: No

Epigraphic edition

[‑ ‑ ‑]m volventes colom[b‑ ‑ ‑ ]

[‑ ‑ ‑]que et antistes hon[‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑]onis sacratam H+[‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑]um meritis +[‑ ‑ ‑]

5       [‑ ‑ ‑]+ENI ante [‑ ‑ ‑]

Translation

No translation is possible.

Bibliography

Baca Alfaro apud Cattaneo, s. XVI, 167; Baca Alfaro apud Vázquez Venegas, s. XVIII, VIII, 336v. (inde Hübner, IHC 133); Maraver 1863–1866, 320 n. 75; ex eis Stylow, II2/7, 693 (Martín Camacho, CLEB ES, CO7). – Cf. Carande 2010, 238–239.

Apparatus

1 + volventes Hübner. – 2 antistes hon[orum?] Stylow. –3 HI Vázquez Venegas; HI vel HE vel HM Cattaneo; sacrata MHI Hübner. – 4 + om. Vázquez Venegas et Maraver. – 5 IENI Vázquez Venegas; I[ ]ENN[ ]IANTE Maraver, ieni ante Hübner.

Comentary

The lines do not fit any length-based scheme, although they might be stressed dactylics (cf. Carande). There are other reasons, apart from metrical, to suggest it is a carmen (uid. Martín Camacho CLEB ES, 126-128): l. 2 the term antistes in almost all cases indicates a carmen epigraphicum; other features agree with texts usually found in carmina dedicated to bishops, cf. l. 2 hon[—] and l. 4 meritis, cf. CLE 1561,11-12; CLE 1516,2-3; CLE 1377,5-6; CLE 1362,8 and 11; etc. It could be a metrical epitaph to a bishop. There are no parallels in Christian texts (epigraphical or otherwise) for the sequence uoluentes colom[—] (?).

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Author

  • Author:J. Martín Camacho
  • Last Update2024-01-31 16:51:36

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