ISic001660: Lilybaeum honours Diognetos Megas as euergetes
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- ID
- ISic001660
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- text checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Although consistently described as marble in publications, the stone is a compact limestone, not a marble, in the form of a thick slab/plaque. The stone has suffered light damage to the edges, especially the right side; the final line is almost entirely worn away, as are some of the letters on the left.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 42 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 20.5 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular and neat letters, thinly incised, all of equal height, and slightly variable width, without serifs. Alpha with broken bar, beta with closed loops (upper slightly smaller), Mu has full length slanting strokes; omicron full size; sigma has horizontal top and bottom, middle strokes taking the full width; rhomboid omega.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Found in the 1939 excavations of the domus romana in insula 1 of Capo Boeo, in the collapse in the frigidarium of the baths subsequently constructed in the domus (and so in secondary deposition)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , 4489
- Autopsy
- Observed on display by Metcalfe, 2015-04-18
- Map
Date
2nd or 1st century BCE (as late as early Augustan acc. to Wilson and Manni Piraino; but Manni Piraino also suggests 2nd century BCE). The form of the letters might imply an earlier date in this range (200 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
This man is the father of one Marcus Valerius Chorton, honours for whom are recorded in two lost inscriptions (one from Mazara, one from Marsala), preserved in the antiquarian tradition (ISic001096 = IG XIV.273) and ISic001097 = IG XIV.277). The inscription is a rare (for Sicily) attestation of an individual honoured as euergetes (benefactor).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284791
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900328
- PHI: 331219
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1965.0507
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0951
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Due Iscrizioni inedite di Marsala», Kokalos 9 (1963): 157–62, at 159-162 no.2 tav.52
- C.A. Di Stefano, Lilibeo. Testimonianze archeologiche dal IV sec a.C. al V sec. d.C. (Palermo, 1984), at 125-126 no. 155
- 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 361 n.107
- C.A. Di Stefano, «Lilibeo: contributo alla rilettura dell’insula I», in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-IIIsec.a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, a c. di C. Ampolo, vol. 2 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), 545–53, at 547
- Brugnone (2021) at 63 fig. 7
- Enrico Caruso e Maria Grazia Griffo, a c. di, Lilibeo e il Mare. Il museo archeologico regionale di Marsala (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’identita siciliana, 2024), at 469 fig.473
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/23/2026