ISic000814: Architrave recording two duumvirs
- ID
- ISic000814
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large architrave block preserving mouldings with the guttae from the base of triglyphs along the top edge. Appears intact on all sides, but broken/damaged at the right-hand end. The rear and the left end are finished.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- sandstone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 45 cm, width: 176 cm, depth: 52 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of deep cut very regular Greek letters with some traces of stucco preserved within the letters (and elsewhere on the stone)
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 85-100mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: n/amm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum
- Provenance found
- Attributed by Fiorentini 2009: 101 n.5 to the architrave of the portico of the gymnasium
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo
- Autopsy
- On display, outside the medagliere.
- Map
Date
Shortly after 44 BCE? early Augustan? (44 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The reference to duumviri implies Roman administration of the city, which requires a date after 44 BC. Wilson and Manganaro both take this to imply that the text must belong in the narrow window of the civil war period, 44-36 BC, under Sextus Pompeius, but this is largely predicated on the assumption that the use of Greek would be impossible subsequently in a city of municipal status, whereas the widespread existence of (Latin) municipia on the island from some time in the Augustan period is clear, and the occasional use/persistence of Greek into the Augustan period is also attested, so restriction to such a narrow window of time seems unnecessary. The example of the Greek inscription on the gymnasium benches (ISic001418), which appears to be clearly Augustan in date, and the further indication that this stone comes from the portico of the gymnasium
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644906
- EDR: 136234
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1966.0168bis
- P. Griffo, «Contributi epigrafici agrigentini», Kokalos 9 (1963): 163–84, at 178-179 no.8 tav.57 fig.9-10
- J. De Waele, Acragas Graeca: die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien. 1, Historischer Teil, Archeologische studiën van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, d 3 (’s-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1971), at 37-38
- Luigi Moretti, «Un ginnasio per Agrigento», Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 104 (1976): 182–86, at 184
- P. Griffo, «Ancora su due epigrafi agrigentine», Sicilia Archeologica 59 (1985): 53–64, at 53
- P. Griffo, Il museo archeologico regionale di Agrigento (Rome, 1987), at 190-192
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 360 n.89
- G. Fiorentini, «Il ginnasio di Agrigento», Kokalos 42 (1996): 5–14, at 13
- G. Fiorentini, «Il ginnasio di Agrigento», Sicilia Antiqua 6 (2009): 71–109, at 101 n.5
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021