ISic004523: Dedication by the Akragantines to Apollo at Delphi
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- ID
- ISic004523
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- base
- Text type
- dedication
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 2002 (IGASMG II² 94). ;
- lines.1–2: Arena prints the dialectal form Ἀπόλο̄νι and regularises it as Ἀπόλλωνι. ;
- Because the original width of the base cannot be established, the restoration remains uncertain. Dubois 1989 records the alternatives τ[ῶι Ἀπόλ]λωνι and τ[ὸ ἄγαλμα τῶι Ἀπόλ]λωνι; Arena 2002 adopts the former.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Limestone base, broken on the right and at the back, with a smooth left side. No recognisable setting traces survive on the upper bed.
- Object type
- base
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 31.5 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 35 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is arranged over two lines, with almost no interlinear space.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Bousquet notes rho with a triangular loop and a tail, alpha with an oblique crossbar descending to the foot of the right hasta, lunate sigma, and nu with an oblique left hasta and an almost vertical right hasta.
- Letter heights
- Lines 1–2: 18–21mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Agrigentum low certainty
- Provenance found
- Found reused in a wall of late date east of the East Baths at , Greece.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Delphi, Sicilia
- Repository
- Archaeological Museum of Delphi
- 7262
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Second quarter of the 5th century BCE (tentative) (475 BCE - 450 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bousquet tentatively dated the dedication to the second quarter of the 5th century BCE and suggested a connection with the establishment of democracy at Akragas after the fall of the tyranny and the death of Theron in 472 BCE. De Waele, drawing on Aelian, Varia Historia 2.33, conjectured that the base may have supported the ivory statue of the river-god Akragas said to have been dedicated at Delphi by the Akragantines in commemoration of the advent of democracy in 471 BCE. Both historical identifications remain conjectural. Bousquet distinguished this smaller base from the other Akragantine dedication at Delphi, inv. 5098 (Dubois 182b).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 931438
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329476
- Printed editions
- J. Bousquet, « Inscriptions de Delphes », Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 88 (1964): 380‑94, at 149–150, fig. 4
- J. De Waele, Acragas Graeca: die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien. 1, Historischer Teil, Archeologische studiën van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, d 3 (’s-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1971), at 39–40 no. 8, pl. 10
- M.L. Lazzarini, Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica (Roma, 1976), at 905
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 182a
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at Addenda, 372
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 94
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/30/2026