12.716. Honours for Kallimorphos, flautist
- Description:
- White marble statue base shaft; a stray fragment from the upper right corner of ll.1-7 survives (H. 0.315 x W. 0.205 x D. 0.11)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
- Letters:
- standard second-/third-century forms, 0.03; diairetic dots flanking Y in l.1, dots for stops in ll.2 and 3, HN in ligature, l.3
- Date:
- 117-38 A.D (contests)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (west part): on the southern stretch of the city wall, near 8.114 (=MAMA 424); fragment a stray find.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Fragment in Museum
- History of discovery:
- Copied by William Sherard in 1705 (BM Add. 10101 f.40-1). A fragment found by the NYU expedition
- Bibliography:
- Published from Sherard's copy by Boeckh, CIG 2810; by Roueché, Performers and Partisans, 67.
- Text constituted from:
- Sherard's notebook, publications, transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0 [(e.g.:) ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν]
- 0a[Τιβ(έριον) Κλαύδιον Τιβ(ερίου) Κλαυ]-
- 1δίου Ἀγαθαγγέλου υἱὸν Καλ-
- 2λίμορφον ἱερέα stop διὰ βίου θε-
- 3ᾶς Νίκης περιοδονίκην πρῶ-
- 4τον καὶ μόνον τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶ-
- 5νος κυκλίων αὐλητῶν νική-
- 6σαντα ἱεροὺς ἀγῶνας τοὺς
- 7 leaf ὑπογεγραμμένους leaf
- 7a vac.
- 8 Πύθια Ἄκτια τὴν ἐξ Ἄργους
- 9 ἀσπίδα δίς Βαρβίλληα ἐν Ἐ-
- 10φέσῳ τετράκις κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς
- 11 καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων Πέργα-
- 12μον τρὶς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς καὶ τὸν
- 13 κατὰ πάντων κοινὸ̣ν Συρίας ἐν
- 14 Ἀντιοχείᾳ δὶς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς
- 15κοινὸν <Κι>λικίας ἐν Ταρσῷ δὶς
- 16κατὰ <τὸ> ἑξῆς Κύζικον Ὀλύμπια
- 17 καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων Ἀδριανὰ Ὀ-
- 18λύμπια ἐν Ἐφέσῳ stop ταλαντιαί
- 19ους δὲ καὶ ἡμιταλαντια<ί>ους ἐνί-
- 20κα ἅπαντας οὓς ἠγωνίσατο leaf
- 0[···································]
- 0a[······························]
- 1ΔΙΟΥΑΓΑΘΑΓΓΕΛΟΥΥΙΟΝΚΑΛ
- 2ΛΙΜΟΡΦΟΝΙΕΡΕΑ stop ΔΙΑΒΙΟΥΘΕ
- 3ΑΣΝΙΚΗΣΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΝΙΚΗΝΠΡΩ
- 4ΤΟΝΚΑΙΜΟΝΟΝΤΩΝΑΠ'ΑΙΩ
- 5ΝΟΣΚΥΚΛΙΩΝΑΥΛΗΤΩΝΝΙΚΗ
- 6ΣΑΝΤΑΙΕΡΟΥΣΑΓΩΝΑΣΤΟΥΣ
- 7 leaf ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΥΣ leaf
- 7a
- 8ΠΥΘΙΑΑΚΤΙΑΤΗΝΕΞΑΡΓΟΥΣ
- 9ΑΣΠΙΔΑΔΙΣΒΑΡΒΙΛΛΗΑΕΝΕ
- 10ΦΕΣΩΤΕΤΡΑΚΙΣΚΑΤΑΤΟΕΞΗΣ
- 11ΚΑΙΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΩΝΠΕΡΓΑ
- 12ΜΟΝΤΡΙΣΚΑΤΑΤΟΕΞΗΣΚΑΙΤΟΝ
- 13ΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΩΝΚΟΙΝ·ΝΣΥΡΙΑΣΕΝ
- 14ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΙΑΔΙΣΚΑΤΑΤΟΕΞΗΣ
- 15ΚΟΙΝΟΝΛΙΚΙΑΣΕΝΤΑΡΣΩΔΙΣ
- 16ΚΑΤΑΕΞΗΣΚΥΖΙΚΟΝΟΛΥΜΠΙΑ
- 17ΚΑΙΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΩΝΑΔΡΙΑΝΑΟ
- 18ΛΥΜΠΙΑΕΝΕΦΕΣΩ stop ΤΑΛΑΝΤΙΑΙ
- 19ΟΥΣΔΕΚΑΙΗΜΙΤΑΛΑΝΤΙΑΟΥΣΕΝΙ
- 20ΚΑΑΠΑΝΤΑΣΟΥΣΗΓΩΝΙΣΑΤΟ leaf
Apparatus
The letters seen by us have been indicated.
After l.8, Sherard shows a vacat.
ll.13, 14, 19: Sherard has ΤΩΝ, corrected to τὸν by Boeckh.
l. 15, ΚΟΙΝΩΝ Sherard.
l. 18, Sherard omitted ΤΟ, not noticed by Boeckh.
ll.19-20: Boeckh restored ἐνί[κα].
Translation:
[?The Council and the People honoured Tiberius Claudius] Kallimorphos, son of [Tiberius] Claudius Agathangelos, who was priest for life of the goddess Nike, first and only circuit-victor of the choral flautists of all time, who won the sacred games listed below.
Pythia, Actia, the shield from Argos twice, Barbillea at Ephesus four times in succession, and the overall contest, Pergamum three times in succession and the overall contest, provincial festival of Syria at Antioch twice in succession, provincial festival of Cilicia twice in succession, Olympia at Cyzicus and the overall contest, Olympic Hadriana at Ephesus. Contests in the talent category, or the half talent category, he won all those in which he competed.
Commentary:
For Kallimorphos see Stephanis, Διονυσιακοὶ τεχνῖταi 1345; for discussion see Roueché, Performers and Partisans, ad loc.
Photographs:
- Lines 1-6, right end (1981)
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