ISic002988: The koinon Kinakon honours Marcus Iunius Felix

Apparatus criticus

• Text of Manni Piraino;
• 9: Perhaps δ(όγματι) δ(εκουριώνων) β(ουλῆς)

Physical description

Support

Description

A rectangular stele of the local compact white limestone, mostly intact, but damage to the face on the lower left corner and the lower right corner is missing.

Object type

stele

Material

limestone

Object condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 70 cm, width: 50 cm, depth: 12 cm

Inscription

Layout

The text fills the face over 9 lines, preserving a strict left margin, but with the final two lines centred.

Text condition

complete

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Neat, regular tall and fairly narrow letters, thinly incised with terminal serifs. Lunate sigma and epsilon, uncial omega.

Letter heights

Line 1: not measuredmm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Mazara

Provenance found

Found in Via Santa Teresa, in front of the 'casa D'Andrea', where the street enters Piazza del Colleggio, at the end of 1931 during works to lay new water pipes

Map

Current location

Place

Mazara del Vallo, Italy

Repository

Mirabilia Urbis

Autopsy

Observed by Prag 2002-07-01, but not formally transcribed

Map

Date

Evidence

lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

The resolution of the final abbreviation is very uncertain. Manni-Piraino suggests also the alternative of 'dono dedit benmerentissimo', although the rendering of a Latin formula would be perhaps even more unusual. The engraved symbol of a crown at the start of line 8 perhaps suggests that Felix was also honoured with a crown (this stele was presumably part of the base of a statue?). The nominative form of the koinon's name is uncertain (kinakes or kinakoi), as is the nature of the association itself, which has been suggested to be a punic name, derived from the Canaanite ethnic, and so conceivably referencing a group of merchants from the eastern Mediterranean or North Africa; or else an association of dyers of purple. See also the entry in the Copenhagen Associations Project http://ancientassociations.ku.dk/assoc/1291.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 285060
• EDR: 108314
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 59500344
• 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 2010.0613
• « 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 1935.0123
• Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 2010.0613
• Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1971.0767
• Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1936.0394
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 60.1013
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 58.1047
• F. Ribezzo, «Iscrizione greca inedita di Mazzara del Vallo», Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica di filologia - lingua - antichità 17 (1933): 49–50.
• Bonanno (1933) at 133-136
• M. Segre, «Mazzara e Lilibeo», Il Mondo Classico 4 (1934): 68–70.
• G.S. De Sanctis, «Commento», Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 12 (1934): 134, at 134
• F. Ribezzo, «Ancora sull’iscrizione greca di Mazzara del Vallo», Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica di filologia - lingua - antichità 18, fasc. 1–2 (1934): 114–16.
• M.T. Manni Piraino, «Mazara ed un ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΚΙΝΑΚΩΝ di età romana imperiale», Oriens Antiquus 8 (1969): 121–25.
• Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 19 n.71
• Antonietta Brugnone, «Tessuti costumi e mode nella Sicilia antica», Kokalos 49 (2008 2003): 51–85, at 80 no.1
• J.R.W. Prag, ‘Sicilia and Britiannia: Epigraphic Evidence for Civic Administration’, in Le Quotidien Municipal Dans l’Occident Romain, ed. C. Berrendonner, M. Cébeillac Gervasoni, and L. Lamoine (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2008), 67–81, at 76

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

11/21/2025