ISic001700: Statue base in honour of Diodoros Appeiraios, son of Tittelos
- ID
- ISic001700
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- Statue base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Ampolo 2022
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A statue base in the local limestone, with moulded cornices projecting top and bottom on the front and sides; the rear is roughly finished without mouldings. Intact, with minor damage to the upper mouldings and upper surface. Two footholes for a statue on the upper surface. The inscription is on the upper part of the front face, immediately below the upper moulding. Measurements provided are the maxima.
- Object type
- Statue base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 120 cm, width: 75 cm, depth: 63 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text of six lines on the upper part of the front face immediately below the moulding. Lines 1, 3, 4 set against the left margin, lines 2, 5, 6 indented by approx one letter space; the right margin is irregular. Only line 1 fills the entire width completely.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Letters deeply and regularly cut, with minimal terminal serifs only. Alpha with straight bar; beta with equal closed loops; epsilon with shorter middle stroke; theta circular with detached middle stroke; kappa with nearly full length arms; omicron almost full-size; pi with equal length verticals, horizontal slightly over extended; rho with closed medium loop; sigma with horizontal top and bottom, mid-strokes join approx half-way across; phi with small circular loop, vertical extended; omega either closed or slightly open, extended tear-drop in shape. Note that phi is taller than the rest at 35 mm, omega smaller at 25-28 mm.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-6: 28-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Found in situ in excavation on 14.05.2021 in a room below the south side of the agora (SG 21, SAS 4 Sud).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Italy
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta , 17033
- Autopsy
- in situ
- Map
Date
The archaeological context, parallel material and palaeography, all support a date in the late second or early first century BCE. (150 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
A second inscription (ISic001106) set up by the same man in honour of his sister Minyra, priestess of Aphrodite Ourania, has been known for many years. Note that ISic001699 was found in immediate proximity to the same structure. Ampolo 2022 outlines the probable relationships between multiple of the attested individuals of at least two elite families in Segesta documented by this and other inscriptions. The word 'ephebikon' is not previously attested in the specific use which must be intended here, of a space set aside for the ephebes (the 'ephebeum' of Vitruvius). The room where the statue base was found shows evidence of wall graffiti (to be analysed) and some benches around the perimeter, and is located immediately to the south of the agora. Ampolo 2022 offers a preliminary discussion of the implications, pending a more detailed analysis.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Carmine Ampolo
- Contributors
- Carmine Ampolo
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/2/2023