ISic003330: I.Sicily inscription 003330
- ID
- ISic003330
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- #frA.line.1: ΙΕΡΩ, Facella 2006: 178 n.127
- #frB.line.1:
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations by Carettoni, summer 1956 in two separate locations to the east of the agora/'muro a bugnato'
Current location
- Place
- Halaesa, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica Halaesa Arconidea
- Autopsy
- 2008.09.30
- Map
Date
Probably later 2nd century BCE on archaeological grounds (150 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
It is not possible to expand the text of block A: Facella (2006: 178 n.127) suggests that an iota can be read before the epsilon, but this is only the line of breakage on the stone, and his suggestion to read the name Hieron (i.e. King Hieron II of Syracuse, c.269-215 BC), if the monumentalisation of the agora belongs in the second century BC, is unlikely (if tempting). Campagna (2007: 117-118; followed by Prestianni Giallombardo 2012: 190 n.35) plausibly suggests that B should be restored to read [--ἐ]κ̣ τῶν χ[ρημάτων--] (‘from the funds...’), i.e. a reference to the financing of the building operation. In other words, the blocks may reasonably be imagined to form part of the dedicatory inscription of whatever structure was supported by the monumental ‘muro a bugnato’ which borders the west side of the principal street (the 'cardo massimo') as it runs north of the agora (and perhaps marks the eastern limit of the area of the so-called ‘agora inferiore’), since the blocks were found in proximity to this wall. The letter forms are consistent with (but do not require) a date in the second century BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645581
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 303 no.3 with fig.42 (A), 311 no.12a (B)
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 178 n.127
- Lorenzo Campagna, «Architettura pubblica ed evergetismo nella Sicilia di età repubblicana», in La Sicilia romana tra Repubblica e Alto Impero, a c. di C. Miccichè, S. Modeo, e L. Santagati (Caltanissetta: Siciliantica, 2007), 110–34, at 117-118
- G. Tigano, «Il sito archeologico», in Alesa Archonidea. Guida all’antiquarium, a c. di G. Scibona e G. Tigano (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), 71–90, at 86 fig.22-23
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 173 fig.148-149
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.41
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021