ISic003628: Honorific inscription for a benefactor

Apparatus criticus

Text of Arena 2016, checked against photograph ;
1: Manganaro 2011: [Ἐπὶ ἀμφιπόλου(?) (Ἀπολλωνίου?) το]ῦ; Arena 2016: Ἐπὶ ---Αἰσχύλο]υ
2: Manganaro 2011: [᾿Ελωρείου (?) μηνὸς ἑν]δεκάται
3: Manganaro 2011: [τᾶς βουλᾶς ? Ξένι]ς; Arena: [τᾶς βουλᾶς ---]ς
4: Manganaro 2009: [ἀγαθᾶι τύχαι δεδόχθ]αι
5: Manganaro 2009: [ἐπειδὴ (name?) Ἐ]π̣άνδρου; Battistoni 2010: [ἐπειδη --- ]άνδρου; Manganaro 2011: [ἐπειδὴ? ---]ι̣ς Ἄνδρου; Arena 2016: [ἐπειδὴ ὁ δεῖνα τοῦ---].σάνδρου
6: Manganaro 2009: [φίλος, ἀγαθὸν πράττων]; Manganaro 2011: [φίλος, ἄξια πράσσων]
7: Manganaro 2009: [ἐστι ὅτι ἔχοιεν οἱ ἄλ]λοι μνάμαν ποιεῖσθαι δὲ ὅσα τε̣; Battistoni 2010: [ἐστι ---].οι μνάμαν ποιεῖσθαι ΔΕ....; Manganaro 2011: [ἐστι διαμένειν αὐ]τ̣οῦ̣ μνάμαν ποιεῖσθαι δὲ ὅσα τὰ̣
8: Manganaro 2009: [χρήσασθαι ὥστε εὐεργ]έταν; Battistoni 2010: [--- δέδοχθαι εὐεργ]έ̣ταν; Manganaro 2011: [νόμιμα καὶ εὐεργ]έ̣ταν; Arena 2016: [οὖν τᾶι πόλει(?) --- εὐεργ]έ̣ταν
9: Manganaro 2009: [ὅπως δὲ μνᾶμν γίνεται] τοῖς ἐπιγιγνο[μέν]οις ὅτι ἐκ̣; Battistoni 2010: ἐπιγιγνο[μέν]οις; Manganaro 2011: [ὅπως φανερὸν ἦ πᾶσι ]τοῖς ἐπιγιγνο[μέν]οις ὅτι [τ]οῖ[ς]; Arena 2016: ὅτι ο <δᾶ>
10: Manganaro 2009: [δίδοται ὁ δᾶμος ὅσον] εἰς; Battistoni 2010: [μος τοῖς ---]; Manganaro 2011: [εὐεργετεῖν αἰρουμέν]οις
11: Manganaro 2009: [καθηκούσας χάριτας]; Battistoni 2011: [καὶ τὰς τιμὰς ἀποδόμειν]; Manganaro 2011: [καὶ τιμὰς ἀπονέμειν]
12: Manganaro 2009: [γράψασθαι εἰς χαλκ]ω̣ματα; Manganaro 2011: [ἐπιγράψασθαι εἰς χαλκ]ω̣ματα
13: Manganaro 2009: τὸ δὲ δόμενα[ι]; Battistoni 2010: τὸ δὲ δόμε[ιν]; Manganaro 2011: τὸ δὲ δόμειν̣
14: Manganaro 2011: [αὐτῶι ὑπόμναμα πο]τὶ τὸν δᾶμον εὐ[νοίας τοὺς δὲ]
15: Manganaro 2009, Battistoni 2010: [----]ΚΙΥ̣[----]; Manganaro 2011: ταμίας ἐξοδιάξαι; Arena 2016: [----------]

Physical description

Support

Description: A small marble plaque, intact above and to the right, but broken to the left and below, the surface worn; the rear very uneven.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 12.7 cm, width: 14 cm, depth: 3.5-4 cm

Material

Description: marble

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Very small letters, rather worn such that terminal points are clear, but impossible to identify extent of serifs. Alpha with straight bar; epsilon with shorter middle bar; almost full-size omicron; lunate sigma; tear-drop shaped, closed omega.
Letter heights: Line 1-3: 5-7mm; Line 4-14: 3-5mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: Not measuredmm

Provenance

Place of origin: Calacte high certainty
Provenance found: Found in November 2003, a chance surface find in a field on the NE slope of the hill of Caronia, immediately below the town, in an area rich in scattered material from the ancient town above.
Map

Current location

Place: Caronia, Sicilia
Repository: Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina , Caronia 25274
Autopsy: Studied but not transcribed, Prag 2019
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Date

2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

For the material context, see Collura 2016. Among the many points of interest, is the fact that the piece survives on a small marble plaque, when it contains instructions for publication in two copies on bronze (compare the Halaesa bronze inscriptions for Nemenios). The presence of lunate sigma alongside consistent iota adscript is also notable, perhaps encouraging a second century BCE date, and the style of the lettering has most in common with texts on metal at this date. The use of marble is relatively rare in the Hellenistic period on the island. The piece also offers a rare example, for Sicily, of honours explicitly for a euergetes.

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: 645701
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor