ISic002731: Fragments of a monumental Greek inscription

ID
ISic002731
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
building
Object type
architrave
Status
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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;
  • a.1: As noted in I.Segesta, the second letter could alternatively be Γ
  • β.1: As noted in I.Segesta, the first letter could alternatively be omega
  • d.1: As noted in I.Segesta, the second letter seems unlikely to be an alpha in comparison to other fragments from the same area.

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragments of trabeation with parts of the upper moulded cornice, with inscribed face below, most likely from the external frieze of the north side of the portico of the bouleuterion. There seems little reason to doubt from the form and style that these are all fragments of the same inscription. Fragment (a) is W 30 x H 19.5 x D 17 cm; (b) is W 28.5 x H 9 x D 10.5 cm; (c) is W 41 x H 24.5 x D31.5; (d) is W 30.5 x H 20.5 x D 22.5 cm; fragment (e), two joining fragments, W 40.25 x H 21 x D 11 cm.
Object type
architrave
Material
limestone
Condition
fragments, non-contiguous
Dimensions
height: cmwidth: cmdepth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Part of a single line of large Greek letters
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
fragments a-e: 56-70mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
(a) was found in 1993 in a collapse layer (US3926) of SAS 3; (b) was found in 1991, in SAS 3, US 3145; (c) was found in 1993 in a collapse layer (US3926) of SAS 3; (d) was found in 1990 in SAS 3 (amb. 1, collapse layer US 3096), in the vicinity of the bouleuterion; (e) was found in 1993 in SAS 3, US 3926 and 3973.
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Current location

Place
Segesta, Italy
Repository
Parco archeologico di Segesta ,
Autopsy
None
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Date

2nd — 1st century BCE (if part of the bouleterion, then later C2 BCE) (200 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

building

commentary

Five fragments from the area of the bouleuterion, which are highly likely to belong to the same monumental text from the facade of the bouleuterion portico on the north side of the building.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/4/2025