ISic000469: Dedication to Apollo
- ID
- ISic000469
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular block of limestone
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 91 cm, depth: 15 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text occupies two lines with interpuncts visible at the end of line 1 and between words in line 2. It is possible that the text continued below, or to the right, on another block, but it is complete in itself
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 70-120mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Said to come from Halaesa
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3573
- Autopsy
- 2017-07-21
- Map
Date
3rd century or early 2nd century BCE (letter forms and orthography) (300 BC – 150 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The dative Apoline (rather than Apollini) is well attested in archaic Latin (Sihler 1995: 284, §276.5; e.g. CIL 12, nos.384, 399, 1928, 2233). If the inscription is genuinely from Halaesa, then it is further evidence for the importance of the sanctuary of Apollo in the city (Diod. Sic. 14.16.4; cf. IG 14, no.352, col. II, ll. 52-54 (=ISic001174); SEG 59 no.1100; Prestianni Giallombardo 2003: 1075-1081). The inscription also provides some of the earliest evidence for Roman presence on the island (cf. Facella 2006: 203-204), although the name Carnius is not otherwise attested on the island. Together with the milestone of Aurelius Cotta from Corleone (ILLRP 1274 = ISic000610, c.252 BC), and the Egadi rostra inscriptions (Prag 2014, before 241 BC, e.g. ISic004367), this is one of the earliest Latin inscriptions from Sicily.
The form Apoline and the letter forms suggest a date in the third or early second century BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491767
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22000851
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7265
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 01.2219
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 1(2) p.1096 tab.118.1
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892), at 3212
- A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1965), at 50
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 73
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Divinità e culti in Halaesa Archonidea: tra identità etnica ed interazione culturale», in Quarte Giornate Internazionali di studi sull’area elima (Erice, 1-4 dicembre 2000). Atti, a c. di A. Corretti, vol. 3, 3 voll. (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2003), 1059–1103, at 1077
- Olga Tribulato, ‘Siculi Bilingues? Latin in the Inscriptions of Early Roman Sicily’, in Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 291–325, at 303
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.43
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Maria Egizia Felice
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021