ISic002728: Fragment of a block, bearing the name Appeiraios
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of I.Segesta;
- 2: Two horizontal strokes are visible, forming the upper part of two letters, such as Γ or Ε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a block of limestone, perhaps a statue base, of which the upper edge may be intact, but it is broken below and on the left; the right margin may be intact. The face is lost from the upper half of the front face.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 11.5 cm, width: 20.1 cm, depth: 23.2 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of two lines preserved, with a wide space between them; unclear if more lines were preserved above.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The letters are somewhat worn, but present a regular and wide/square module, broadly and deeply incised. Alpha with straight bar, epsilon with shorter middle bar, omicron smaller and above the line, rho with a small closed eye.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 13-17 (13 = omicron)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- A casual find in the area of the agora, bordering the original road to the theatre
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Sicilia
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 1st century BCE (200 BCE - 1 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Nenci described the fragment as part of an architrave, but Ampolo and Erdas consider it more likely to be part of a statue base. Appeiraios is attested as the third onomastic element in the name of Diodoros son of Tittelos in ISic001106. This is likely to be another honorific, but not of course necessarily for the same individual.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- SEG at (1995), 45.1393
- 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 1183 no.2 tav.267.2
- Nenci (1997) at 1191-1192 tav.234.2
- 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.12
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 87
- Ampolo and Erdas (2019) at G27
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/22/2025