ISic001106: I.Sicily inscription 001106

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J.Prag 2023-07-18
ID
ISic001106
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication; honorific
Object type
base
Status
edited
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy ;
  • 1: Caietanus, Gualtherus, Castelli: Διόδωτος; Ampolo-Erdas: Διόδωρος; note that the head of the rho is entirely lost.
  • 2: Other edd: vacat not noted
  • 4: Other edd: vacat not noted

Physical description

Support

Description
A quadrangular block of compact white limestone, squared off on all sides, although slightly uneven at the rear and only roughly finished. No traces on the upper surface of any clamp holes or footholes or similar. Lightly damaged on the front left edge and upper front left corner, and on the upper right edge, and the lower right front edge/corner.
Object type
base
Material
limestone
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 21.9-21.6 (left to right) cm, width: 75 cm, depth: 53.5-50.0 (left to right) cm

Inscription

Layout
Four lines of Greek letters centred on the face of the stone, but with a leftward bias.
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Very neatly carved wide, regular letters of a fairly square module, with minimal serifs and all letters of near equal size. Straight bar alpha; epsilon with only slightly shorter middle bar; mu with vertical first and last, middle strokes descen half-way; omicron near full size; pi has equal length verticals with slight overhang on both sides of the cross bar; rho has large rounded closed eye; sigma has horizontal top and bottom strokes; phi is circular and without over-extended vertical; omega is open and tear-drop shaped.

Types
Letter heights
Line 1: 25-34mm
Line 2: 26-36mm
Line 3: 24-34mm
Line 4: 25-34mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 19-21mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 14-18mm
Interlineation line 3 to 4: 10-17mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
Recovered from the ruins of Segesta, according to Gualtherus from the vicinity of the temple, although Caietanus, who offers the first mention of it, is not so specific.
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Current location

Place
Segesta, Italy
Repository
Parco archeologico di Segesta
Autopsy
Prag 2023-07-18, in the on-site antiquarium.
Map

Date

late second century BCE, or early C1 BCE, following Ampolo and Erdas (previously dated earlier by Nenci) and confirmed by parallel material (150 BC - 51 BC)
Evidence
archaeological-context, lettering

Text type

dedication; honorific

commentary

A new text (ISic001700) found in 2021 in situ records the same Diodoros Appeiraios.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
10/15/2025