ISic002737: Honorific for Lucius Iulius Agrippa, euergetes
- ID
- ISic002737
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of I.Segesta, with the addition of interpunctuation on the basis of photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large plaque of limestone made up of three connecting fragments. Intact on all sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 58.4 cm, width: 73.5 cm, depth: 21.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines centred on the upper half of the plaque.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 52-61mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Found in May 1992, in the fill of the base of the temple on the west side of the agora, in a mediaeval layer
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Italy
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta ,
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Suggested to be Tiberian or Claudian on palaeographic and onomastic grounds (AD 14 – AD 54)- Evidence
- lettering, nomenclature
Text type
commentary
The stone is presumably a plaque to be affixed to a statue base, with the word 'hic' referring to the statue of the honorand. Euergetes is the first instance of this Greek word as a calque in Latin. 'a Sosia' presumably refers to a location within the city, and has been suggested to refer to a statue (Dubois), or perhaps a platea or via.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491403
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 3600028
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1997.0740
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2000.0640
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1998.0608
- 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 1184 no.11
- C. Michelini, «Le agorai di ambiente coloniale e il caso di Segesta», in Seconde giornate internazionali di studi sull’area elima (Gibellina 22-26 ottobre 1994), vol. 3, 3 voll. (Pisa, Gibellina, 1997), 1139–58, at n.12
- 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 1193 tav.CCXXXV.2
- G. Paci, «Epigrafia latina», Kokalos 47–48, fasc. 1 (2008): 331–43, at 333-334
- Olga Tribulato, ‘Siculi Bilingues? Latin in the Inscriptions of Early Roman Sicily’, in Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 291–325, at 314
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at L8
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/4/2025