<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Kallimorphos, flautist

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft; a stray fragment from the upper right corner of ll.1-7 survives (0.315 x 0.205 x 0.11)

Description of 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)

Edition e.g.: ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Τιβερίου Κλαυ δίου Ἀγαθαγγέλου υἱὸν Καλλίμορφον ἱερέα διὰ βίου θεᾶς Νίκης περιοδονίκην πρῶτον καὶ μόνον τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνος κυκλίων αὐλητῶν νικήσαντα ἱεροὺς ἀγῶνας τοὺς ὑπογεγραμμένους Πύθια Ἄκτια τὴν ἐξ Ἄργους ἀσπίδα δίς Βαρβίλληα ἐν Ἐφέσῳ τετράκις κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων Πέργαμον τρὶς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων κοινὸν Συρίας ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ δὶς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς κοινὸν Κιλικίας ἐν Ταρσῷ δὶς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς Κύζικον Ὀλύμπια καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων Ἀδριανὰ Ὀλύμπια ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ταλαντιαίους δὲ καὶ ἡμιταλαντιαίους ἐνίκα ἅπαντας οὓς ἠγωνίσατο
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.

Locations

Walls, South (west part): on the southern stretch of the city wall, near 8.114 (=MAMA 424); fragment a stray find. Unknown Fragment in Museum

Text Constituted From

Sherard's notebook, publications, transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

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.

Photographs

Lines 1-6, right end (1981)