ISic003505: Inscription recording architect of the Bouleuterion
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- ID
- ISic003505
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- pavement
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- text according to Ampolo and Erdas 2019
Physical description
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- Description
- Five slabs from the pavement of the bouleuterion, confirmed to come from the area of the entrance of the portico, of which the first (to the left) is uninscribed, the other four bearing four lines of Greek letters. The individual slabs are 74 cm in width.
- Object type
- pavement
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 75.5 cm, width: 387.6 cm, depth: 14-38.5 cm
Material
- Description
- stone
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large, thinly carved letters of wide module. Alpha with broken bar; epsilon with equal width horizontal strokes; kappa with short arms; theta and omicron full size; theta with detached cross-bar; pi with overlapping cross-bar; sigma with horizontal outer strokes, shallow inner strokes; omicron rhomboid and closed.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 84-98mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- The second slab from the left first observed by Gualtherus in the ruins of the site; the other four slabs were found in excavation in 1997 of the collapse of a room of mediaeval date constructed on top of the bouletuerion, except for the first, uninscribed slab, which was in re-use in a near-by cistern.
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Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Sicilia
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta , SG 7578 + 7579 + 7580 + 7581 + 10782 (uninscribed)
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
end of the second century BCE on archaeological grounds. (130 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492729
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102270
- PHI: 140596
- PHI: 336567
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 323
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 5547
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 292
- Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 5193
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 50.1020
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Varia Elyma: novità epigrafiche, numismatiche, toponomastiche e cultuali dall’area elima», in Terze Giornate Internazionale di studi sull’area elima. Atti., vol. 2, 2 voll. (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2000), 809–21, at 810-811 tav.156
- Stefania De Vido, «Genealogie Segestane», in Quarte Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull’area elima, Erice, 1-4 dicembre 2000, vol. 1 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2003), 367–402, at 400 no.13
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 88
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at G14
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/4/2026