ISic001101: I.Sicily inscription 001101
- ID
- ISic001101
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy (Prag);
- Line.2: The stone reads Δευκίου
Physical description
Support
- Description
- An off-white quadrangular block, broken in half in the past and rejoined together. The right-hand half is more worn than the left, with the line of the break running vertically through the middle of the text. The stone appears to be more or less intact on the upper half, but broken / damaged to an unquantifiable degree around the lower edges. The sides have been pecked with a chisel implying the presence orginally of blocks or other material to each side. The upper surface appears smooth.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: c.30 cm, width: c.90 cm, depth: c.48 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek filling the full width of the stone, with a vacat below
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Eryx
- Provenance found
- Said to have been recovered from a well or cistern in the vicinity of the Chiesa di San Pietro; currently set in plaster/cement immediately inside the door of the entrance hall
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Erice, Italy
- Repository
- Biblioteca Civica "Vito Carvini" , 213
- Autopsy
- 2002.07.01
- Map
Date
52 BCE assuming identification with q. 52 BCE, tr.pl. 49 BCE (52 BC – 52 BC)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
The block is presumably part of a dedication to Venus Erycina, made by a member of the Segestan elite who served as a military commander during the period of the Roman Republican province. It is likely that this was to commemorate his service as the Sicilian commander of the honorific garrison of 200 men stationed at Eryx, described by Diodorus Siculus (4.83.7), as well as Cicero (Verr. 5.124), and for which the 17 Sicilian towns that had remained most loyal to Rome were responsible (see Prag, JRS 2007 pp. 81-82 with references). A similar text can be seen in CIL 10.7258 = ISic000538. The name Pasion is moderately well attested in Sicily as well is in the wider Greek world, whereas Seisurion is assumed to be an indigenous form. The Lucius Caecilius L.f. Metellus in question is normally identified with the son of the Metellus who governed Sicily after Verres, in 70 BC, and who held the quaestorship referred to here in 52 BC, as by Broughton and others (see http://romanrepublic.ac.uk/person/2480).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492722
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102259
- PHI: 140585
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5501
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5192
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0282
- R. Cagnat, J. Toutain, and P. Jouguet, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, 4 vols (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906), at 501
- Stefania De Vido, «appendice: fonti letterarie, epigrafiche, numismatiche, etc.», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 21 (1991): 929–94, at 974
- Stefania De Vido, «Genealogie Segestane», in Quarte Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull’area elima, Erice, 1-4 dicembre 2000, vol. 1 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2003), 367–402, at 400 no.14
- J.R.W. Prag, ‘Auxilia and Gymnasia: A Sicilian Model of Roman Republican Imperialism’, Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007): 68–100, at 82 n.78
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at App.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