ISic003419: A koinon honours Sextus Peducaeus
- ID
- ISic003419
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon autopsy of plaster-cast held in the Palermo soprintendenza;
- 1: Calascibetta and Di Leonardo: τὸ κοιν[ὸν -----]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Although damaged around the edges, the block appears essentially intact top, left and below, but appears to have been cut down on the right, with a significant part of the text (same block or a second block?) missing from the right. The stone is a soft coarse stone of poor quality and the surface is not well preserved. The block was found in re-use in a later wall.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 33 cm, width: 39 cm, depth: 89 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Greek text. Interlineation suggests a clear vacat below the fifth line (40-60mm). Left margin of the text is irregular (varies between 15 and 70 mm), and appears original, suggesting that the text was approximately centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30-37mm
- Line 2: 30-35mm
- Line 3: 30mm
- Line 4: 28-30mm
- Line 5: 30-33mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20-25mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 23mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 20-23mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 18-20mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Soluntum
- Provenance found
- Found winter 2006/7, following partial collapse of the rear wall of room b of the building of the so-called 'altar with three betyls' immediately to the south of the agora
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Solunto, Italy
- Repository
- Area Archeologica e Antiquarium di Solunto
- Autopsy
- Prag 2017-07-18. autopsy of plaster cast, Palermo Soprintendenza
- Map
Date
76—75 BCE (76 BC – 75 BC)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
As much as half the text is likely to be missing from the right side, given that the designation of the koinon is required in line 1, the honorific title for Peducaeus in line 4 (patron is suggested by the original editors, but as they note euergetes or soter are also very possible), and a filiation is likely for Peducaeus in line 2 also. The title antistrategos is of considerable significance for the long running discussions regarding the nature of the power of the provincial governors in this period (praetor pro consule, or only with praetorian imperium), as discussed e.g. in F. Hurlet, « Pro consule uel pro praetore ? À propos des titres et des pouvoirs des gouverneurs prétoriens d’Afrique, de Sicile et de Sardaigne-Corse sous la République romaine (227-52 av. J.-C.) », in Chiron, 42, 2012, p. 97-108. Sextus Peducaeus was praetor in 77 BCE and praetorian governor of Sicily in 76-75 BCE (when Cicero was quaestor on the island). The inscription is one of several recording a koinon in Sicily (see http://ancientassociations.ku.dk/assoc/1287 for the specific record in the Copenhagen Associations Project), but its identification is unknown.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645620
- EDR: 136794
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900499
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 62.0691
- A. M. G. Calascibetta e L. Di Leonardo, «Un nuovo documento epigrafico da Solunto», in Sicilia occidentale. Studi, rassegne, ricerche, a c. di Carmine Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 37–47.
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
- 5/9/2025