ISic001106: I.Sicily inscription 001106
- ID
- ISic001106
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication; honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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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
- 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
- Lettering
-
- 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.
- Map
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 – 50 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
A new text (ISic001700) found in 2021 in situ records the same Diodoros Appeiraios.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492725
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102264
- PHI: 140590
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at 40 no. 262
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 49 no. 321
- Octavius Caietanus, Isagoge ad historiam sacram siculam (Palermo: Vincentius Toscanus, 1707), at 102
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 20 cl.3 no.3
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 23 cl.3 no.4
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5543 and p.1249
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5188
- 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 14.0287
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1313
- U. Schmoll, ‘Zu den vorgriechischen Keramikinschriften von Segesta’, Kokalos 7 (1961): 67–80, at 76-79
- Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 146
- V. Giustolisi, Nakone ed Entella alla luce degli antichi decreti recentemente appari e di un nuovo decreto inedito (Palermo, 1985), at 34 fig.9
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 213
- 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 972
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Iscrizioni elime, greche e latine», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 21 (1991): 915–18, at tav.305
- 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 397 no.1
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at G1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Giorgia Capra
- system
- Last revision
- 4/16/2024