ISic001181: Apollonia(?) honours Andron son of Thrasios
- ID
- ISic001181
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- line.1: pietra: ΛΛΒ
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large grey-white limestone block, seemingly intact, in re-use in an external corner wall of a mediaeval church.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 73 cm, width: 69 cm, depth: 50 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Greek text, not quite centred, but lines 2 and 3 fill the width of the face.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-4: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Apollonia
- Provenance found
- First recorded, and still visible, in exterior corner wall of Santuario dei Tre Santi Fratelli, Monte Vecchio, San Fratello (ME)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- San Fratello, Italy
- Repository
- Area Archeologica dell�antica Apollonia
- Autopsy
- 2019-07-23; 2006-04
- Map
Date
2nd — 1st century BCE (200 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The text, unusually for Sicily, omits the ethnic of the people erecting the honours for Andron. It is reasonably assumed that the inscription comes from the site of ancient Apollonia, since it has been recorded since the 17th century in re-use in a structural wall of the church of the 'tre santi', which dates back to the 11th/12th century, and within which a number of other pieces of ancient stonework can be seen in re-use also; the church stands within the ancient site. The presence of a demotic abbreviation (to be corrected to 'LAB') finds parallels in a number of other texts from Hellenistic Sicily, and in particular from Halaesa (e.g. ISic000800) and Kaleakte (ISic003628) among nearby sites. The specific abbreviation 'lab' is attested at Halaesa (SEG 59.1100) and in IGDS II.40, a list of names on lead that may come from the area of Siracusa. The presence of identical such abbreviations at, e.g., both Halaesa and Akrai, however, demonstrates that this particular example cannot serve to prove that the text originally came from Halaesa. Dedications 'to all the gods' are also reasonably widespread in Hellenistic Sicily, both at Halaesa and elsewhere. At Halaesa the formula consistently stands at the head of the text, however (e.g. ISic000800); the final position, as here, finds parallels, for instance, at Tauromenion (e.g. ISic003125)
Andron is a reasonably common name, with at least 11 other attestations in Sicily; Thrasios, by contrast, is rare and not attested otherwise in Sicily.
Excavation of ancient Apollonia has to date been limited (see Bonanno 2008), but it is clear that there was a city there in the Hellenistic period and the city is attested in several ancient sources including the Verrines (Cic. 2 Verr. 3.103; 5.86, 90). .
L. D'Amore 2005 provides a detailed antiquarian/editorial history of the stone's publication, demonstrating that IG XIV.613 of Rhegion is in fact a false doublet deriving from a report of this text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492786
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102335
- PHI: 140664
- 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 43 no.307
- 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 cl.5 no.4
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5602
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 198 no.17
- 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 14.0359
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 55.1054
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 55.1006
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Revisioni epigrafiche siceliote», Kokalos 17 (1971): 170–83, at 178-179 tav.LII
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 378 n.19, 406 n.2
- Lucia D’Amore, «IG, XIV, 613: un’iscrizione inesistente», Epigraphica 67 (2005): 422–28.
- C. Bonanno, Apollonia. Indagini archeologiche sul Monte di San Fratello - Messina, 2003-2005 (Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2008), at 14 fig.3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021