ISic002727: Inscription recording works undertaken by the agoranomos Herakleios
- ID
- ISic002727
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building; honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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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 cm, width: 35.5 cm, depth: 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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The letters are incised somewhat crudely, more in the style of scratched than formally engraved letters, but of roughly equal size throughout. Lunate epsilon and sigma, uncial omega, mu tending towards cursive.
- 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
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1392
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Iscrizioni greche e latine», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser.3, 25, fasc. 4 (1995): 1182–87, at 1182 no.1 tav.267.1
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Novità epigrafiche dall’area elima», in Seconde Giornate Internazionali di studi sull’area elima (Gibellina, 22-26 ottobre 1994). Atti., vol. 3, 3 voll. (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1997), 1187–1202, at 1191 tav.CCXXXIV.1
- V. Giustolisi, Petra: atlante delle antiche strutture rupestri dell’alta valle del Platani (Castronovo) (Palermo: Centro di documentazione e ricerca per la Sicilia antica «Paolo Orsi», 1999), at 135 ph dr
- Stefania De Vido, «Genealogie Segestane», in Quarte Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull’area elima, Erice, 1-4 dicembre 2000, vol. 1 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2003), 367–402, at 400 no.11
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 86
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at G17
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/22/2025