ISic001175: Halaesa honours Diogenes Lapiron, son of Diogenes
- ID
- ISic001175
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Prag from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A block of white limestone. The block is intact, but has suffered considerable loss to the front left edge and upper front left corner, as well as general degradation of the lower front edge and lower front right corner; the rear upper right corner is also missing. The upper surface shows traces of something being placed on top, but since the stone was apparently reused in the wall of the church, it is hard to know what is original.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 57.5 cm, depth: 59 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek text are preserved, with some of the initial letters lost at the left margin.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-5: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Antonio Agustín, c.1559, who saw it in the Church of Santa Maria dei Palazzi, Halaesa
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8786
- Autopsy
- 2017-07-21 (Prag)
- Map
Date
The text cannot be precisely dated, but the style of the lettering suggests that it belongs to the 2nd century BCE, rather than the 1st. (200 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The inscription has the form of a standard honorific dedication for an individual, and there are several similar texts from the area of the agora at Halaesa. Several other individuals are known from Halaesa with the second name ‘Lapiron’ (in three other inscriptions, ISic001176, ISic000800, ISic003571 and from Cicero, In Verrem 2.2.19-28), and the name Diogenes is recorded a second time in the same family in ISic001176 - in theory this could be the same individual (see Facella 2006: 229-241 on the family). The name Lapiron is otherwise only attested at Locri (SEG 32.1018), although the phenomenon of such second names is common in Hellenistic Sicily (O. Masson, Onomastica Graeca Selecta (2000), vol. 2, 379-86). This block is most likely to be the base, or part of the base, for a statue or some other object dedicated to ‘all the gods’ in honour of Diogenes.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491447
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102329
- PHI: 140658
- PHI: 175730
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 46 no.298
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum in praecipuis earumdem collectionibus hactenus praetermissarum, collectore Ludovico Antonio Muratorio .... Tomus secundus, vol. 2 (Mediolani: ex aedibus Palatinis, 1740), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Muratori1740Vol2, at 554 no.3
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Storia di Alesa, antica città di Sicilia (Palermo: Stamperia de SS. Appostoli in Piazza Vigliena, presso Pietro Bentivenga, 1753), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1763, at 143-145 no.1
- 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 44 no.14
- 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 48 cl.V no.17
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5595
- F. Bechtel et al., Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1884), at 5201
- 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 14.0353
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 127
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Revisioni epigrafiche alesine e nuove inedite trascrizioni della grande tabula di Alesa», Kokalos 39–40 (1993): 528–33, at tav.1
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 230 n.30
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 178 fig.157
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.42
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Maria Egizia Felice
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021