ISic030281: ISicily 030281
- ID
- ISic030281
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
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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
- 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
- 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
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
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5491.b (add. p.1248)
- Raffaele Garrucci, I piombi antichi raccolti dall’eminentissimo principe il cardinale Lodovico Altieri (Rome: Clemente Puccinelli, 1847), https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5xNfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false, at 58-59
- 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 14.0954
- L. Robert, Collection Froehner. 1. Inscriptions grecques (Paris: Editions des Bibliothèques nationales, 1936), at 130 no.84, pl.XLIII
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tre tavole di bronzo con decreti di proxenia del Museo di Napoli e il problema dei proagori in Sicilia», Kokalos 9 (1963): 205–20, at 214, tav.LXVII.5
- Mika Kajava, ‘Two Greek Documents on Bronze (IG XIV 954; IG XIV 955 = IGUR 4)’, Arctos: Acta Philologica Fennica 48 (2014): 205–9, at 206
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/4/2023