ISic002727: Inscription recording works undertaken by the agoranomos Herakleios

ID
ISic002727
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
building; honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
Links
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Edition

Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019) Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of ISegesta;
  • 3: The final Ν is underdotted in I.Segesta, but it is unclear why, as the text is completely clear in the photograph.

Physical description

Support

Description
No data
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
complete
Dimensions
height: 30.5 cmwidth: 35.5 cmdepth: 14 cm

Inscription

Layout
Text is set out over three lines, the first two left justified, the third crudely centred, with a vacat both above and below.
Text condition
complete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-3: 17-22mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2 : mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
Found in secondary deposition in SAS 3, in re-use in a layer no later than the second half of the C12 CE, part of the mediaeval structures on the upper terrace of the agora.
Map

Current location

Place
Segesta, Italy
Repository
Parco archeologico di Segesta , SG6496
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

1st century BCE (100 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

building; honorific

commentary

A city of Petra is recorded in Entella A1 = ISic030298, and so presumably in this region of Sicily; but given that Herakleios holds a magistracy in Segesta, the onomastic element Petreinos is presumably a demotic, and should this refer to the same Petra, the implication is presumably that Petra is now a village of Segesta, or similar.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/22/2025