ISic002986: Section of the civic accounts of Tauromenion
- ID
- ISic002986
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- accounts
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Arangio Ruiz and Olivieri
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 44 cm, width: 84 cm, depth: 35 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text laid out over five columns, with vacat at the end of col. 5.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lunate epsilon, sigma, uncial omega
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found by P. Rizzo in a wall to the east of the ancient theatre
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- Observed, not transcribed, Prag 2009-10-06
- Map
Date
Prior to 45 BCE and the month of Iulius (100 BC - 45 BC)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
This is one of two surviving blocks of the account inscriptions (see also ISic002985) which employ Roman months, as well as making reference to nomoi and duo andres. Consequently it is assumed to belong to a later period than the other account inscriptions; additionally the numerals are given in 'normal 'descending fashion, in contrast to the pseudo-ascending numerals of the other inscriptions. However, col.1.13 references the month of Quinctilius, which in principle implies a date prior to c.45 BCE and the calendrical reforms of Julius Caesar. Consequently, it has sometimes been suggested (e.g. Willers, Manganaro) that they should date specifically to the period between c.42 and 36 BCE, i.e. after the grants of Latinitas by Julius Caesar and of Roman citizenship by M. Antonius, but prior to the defeat of Sextus Pompeius by Octavian and the punitive transformation of the city into a Roman veteran colonia - with the continued use of Quinctilius explained by a pro-Pompeian, anti-Caesarian, local administration. This seems like very special pleading, and it seems much easier to assume a transition to using a variety of Roman institutions (calendar, monetary standards), likely at some point earlier in the first century BCE.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645338
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329611
- 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 1906.0176
- Rizzo (1899)
- Willers (1905)
- Cuntz (1906) at 467-468
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0048
- V. Arangio Ruiz and A. Olivieri, Inscriptiones graecae Siciliae et infimae Italiae ad ius pertinentes (Milan, 1925), at no.13
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Le tavole finanziare di Tauromenion», in Comptes et inventaires dans la cité grecque: actes du colloque international d’épigraphique tenu à Neuchâtel du 23 au 26 septembre 1986 en l’honneur de J.Tréheux, a c. di D. Knoepfler (Neuchâtel, 1988), 155–90.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/22/2025