ISic003472: Fragment of a decree(?)

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ID: ISic003472
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: decree
Object type: unknown
Status: draft
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Edition

Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika: studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca, Biblioteca di QUCC 8 (Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici internazionali, 1999) Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Manganaro 1999

Physical description

Support

Description: A large fragment of local limestone, broken at least on the right and above, bearing at least 8 lines of text; the form of the original support is unknown (block, stele, plaque or something else).
Object type: unknown
Material: limestone
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: at least 8 lines of well spaced letters
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Alpha with wide form and straight bar; Epsilon with three equal horizontal bars; Nu of an open and right-ward angled form; sigma four bar and widely angled open; pi with shorter right hasta.
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: near Palazzolo Acreide
Provenance found: Observed by Manganaro in a cascina in the area of Contrada Falabia, SW of Palazzolo Acreide
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Current location

Place: Palazzolo Acreide, Italy
Repository
Autopsy: None

Date

4th or earlier 3rd century BCE (400 BC - 251 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

decree

commentary

Manganaro suggests this is a decree of Akrai, published in villages in the city's territory. He speculates that the text makes reference to a theft, and perhaps involving a sacred building or sanctuary (line 6: ε]ἰς ὀροφὰν ΕΔ[--; and line 7: ἐ]κλέπτοσαν Ε[--). The text is notable as a rare example of an early Hellenistic document.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

8/12/2025