ISic001111: Record of construction work on the agora
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- ID
- ISic001111
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ampolo and Erdas 2019
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining parts of a large stone block cut in the form of a tabula ansata with rounded ends. The larger fragment preserved the middle and right part of the stone, the smaller the left hand end. The right hand end is partially damaged, and there is some loss at the point of join, but otherwise essentially intact. The surface of the larger fragment is very worn. The larger fragment known since the 17th century and preserved in Calatafimi, while the smaller fragment was found in secondary deposition in excavation in the late 1990s / early 2000s. A large round whole of later date is cut into the centre of the face of the larger fragment, reflecting later re-use as a threshold (whence also the surface wear).
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 43.5 cm, width: 107 cm, depth: 25.8 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- Six lines of Greek, set out across the full width of the stone face.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Broad, finely carved letters. Alpha with straight bar, epsilon with shorter middle bar, theta, omicron, omega all smaller and above the line; theta possibly with central dot rather than cross-bar; kappa with short arms; Mu with vertical outer strokes, shorter inner strokes; pi without overlap of the horizontal; sigma with parallel outer strokes, phi with small eye and extended vertical; omega small, circular and open.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 29-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- The larger block first recorded by Gualtherus in Calatafimi; the smaller block found on the north side of the principal stoa in the agora, in re-use in a mediaeval wall (US4510). The larger block is currently in the biblioteca comunale di Calatafimi; the smaller in the magazzini of the Parco archeologico di Segesta (Case Barbaro), inv.13385.
Current location
- Place
- Calatafimi, Sicilia
- Repository
- Biblioteca communale
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Later second century BCE on the basis of the archaeological evidence for the agora contstruction. (150 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The inscription, prior to discovery of the left hand fragment, was regularly cited in discussion of gymnasia evidence, due to the proposed restoration of the word xystos in line 6.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492727
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102268
- PHI: 140594
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at 263
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 322
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5546 and p.1249
- 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 290
- Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5189
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 40.1717
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 62.0684
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 215
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Florilegio epigrafico segestano», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 21 (1991): 920–29, at 923 n.16-17 tav.297
- 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 972-973
- P. Di Veroli, «Nuovi eponimi della Sicilia ellenistica», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996): 309–10, at 310 n.5
- 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 397-398 no.4
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at G10
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/4/2026