ISic001097: M. Valerius Chorton honoured as euergetes
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- ID
- ISic001097
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- text of IG following Torremuzza, after Tardia
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Simply described as 'basis'
- Object type
- base
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- stone
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The manuscript tradition records rhomboid closed omega; Torremuzza after Tardia also records lunate sigma.
- Letter heights
- Line 1 : mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2 : mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Tardia in 1765, and transmitted to Torremuzza
Current location
Lost.
Date
later first century BCE, or very beginning of the first century CE(?) (50 BC - AD 14)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
The inscription is similar to a more garbled text transmitted by Gualtherus and Tardia and observed at Mazara del Vallo (ISic001096 = IG XIV.273). An honorific for the father, Diognetos Megas was found in Marsala in the 20th century and provides confirmation of the tradition (SEG 34.951 = ISic001660. The text is unusual for the Greek transcription of the latin word decurio, seemingly in the sense of 'bouleutes'. The presence of the term, together with the associated Latin inscripition on the side (although whether this is contemporary or a later addition is impossible to know) strongly suggest a date after the 40s BCE; but the existence of the more traditionally late Hellenistic Greek inscripiton for the father in turn make a later date almost impossible.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
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- R. Cagnat, J. Toutain, and P. Jouguet, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, 4 vols (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906), at 499
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Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2021