ISic030281: ISicily 030281

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic030281
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
decree
Object type
lamina
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Robert, with minor modifications. As Robert notes, the exact placing of the line breaks is necessarily hypothetical.;
  • 2: Robert prints [-- κατα]λογὰν, but reports a visible oblique stroke before the lamda, compatible with either alpha or lamda.
  • 5: Robert, Manganaro: τ(ᾶ)ς; Kaibel: ΤΕΣ (= τᾶς?); the photo of the bronze shows a large and crude epsilon.Robert: π(α)ροχ[ᾶς]; Kaibel: ΠΚΡΟΧ (= π[α]ροχ[ᾶς]); Manganaro: παροχ[ᾶς]; the visible traces in the photograph of the bronze are compatible with alpha.
  • 10: Robert, Kaibel: [πρό]ξενον; Manganaro: [πρό.]ενον

Physical description

Support

Description
A bronze disk, cut out from what was presumably originally a quadrangular plaque, of diameter 7.2 cm (Robert).
Object type
lamina
Material
bronze
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: 0.3 cm

Inscription

Layout
The extent/layout of the text is unknown, since the disc was cut out of the original text.
Text condition
complete
Technique
engraved
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1-10: 5mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin
Agrigentum
Provenance found
Purchased by Hartung near Gavignano, in October 1846, where it was apparently also found, although this remains uncertain (see Kajava 2014: 208 for full discussion)

Current location

Place
Paris, France
Repository
Formerly in the Collection Froehner ,
Autopsy
none

Date

Later first century BCE? (presumably after 46 BCE, given reference to municipium). (46 BC - 1 BC)
Evidence
lettering, textual-context

Text type

decree

commentary

The primary interest of the text lies in the use, in Greek of the term municipium. This implies a date not earlier than the grant of Latin rights to the Sicilians by Julius Caesar (46 BCE), but more commonly assumed to be of the Augustan period. The attempts by Kajava (followed by Korhonen and Soraci) to date it relative to IG XIV.955 on palaeographic grounds are not sustainable.

Bibliography

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Discussion

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/4/2023