ISic030294: Entella 1 (Nenci) = C2 (Ampolo): friendship and alliance with the Herbitaioi

Apparatus criticus

• Text by Prag, based upon photographs;
• 7: Lewis 1978, Nenci 1980, Asheri-Nenci 1982, SEG 30, Dubois 1989: final Ε marked unclear
  
• 8: Nenci 1980, Asheri-Nenci 1982, Dubois 1989: [β]οάθησαν; Nenci 1991, Nenci 1993: βοαθόησαν; Porciani 2001: .οαθόησαν; previous edd.: ἐνόρ-
  
• 10: Previous edd.: τὰν
  
• 11: Previous edd.: (vacat) ται; the cutter perhaps first wrote μέμναντας ται τᾶς, erasing –τας subsequently upon realising the error?
  
• 13: Previous edd: χάλκωμα
  
• 16: τοὺς omitted in Nenci 1991, 1993, Porciani 2001
  
• 17: Previous edd: κατακαλεῖσθαι
  
• 18: Previous edd: τοὺς; Nenci 1993: συνθύ.ιν

Physical description

Support

Description

Bronze tablet approximately 19 cm high and 15 cm wide (Ampolo, Magnetto, Porciani propose a max of c.22 cm high x 17.5 cm wide). Rectangular in form with a triangular pediment at the top; a border is attached by nails on all sides except the base, but is damaged / missing on the lower left. Three nail holes for suspension of the tablet are visible, one top centre of the pediment, the others lower left and lower right, bracketing the text of the final line; that on the lower right shows further damage, with the metal missing between the hole and the lower edge, perhaps due to forcible removal of the tablet from its original display location. As subsequently studied in detail by Ampolo, the corrosion patterns on the tablet (particularly visible in the pre-cleaning photograph) show the 'ghosts' of other tablets as they lay on top of it in secondary deposition.

Object type

lamina

Material

bronze

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 19 cm, width: 15 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Lines 1-3 are centred in the pediment. From line 4 onwards, the text is situated on the main rectangular body of the tablet. Lines 5-22 maintain a left-hand margin of one letter-space; line 4 begins hard against the left border fo the tablet. Line 23 (final line) is centred with larger letters (approximately double size).

Text condition

complete

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin

Entella

Provenance found

The tablet is one of 8 illegally looted from the site of Rocca d'Entella, almost certainly in the spring of 1977 from a location in close proximity to the more recently excavated area in the centre of the ancient city in the 'eastern valley'. For the fullest discussion, see Ampolo 2021, esp. 91-93. Ampolo, Magnetto and Porciani 2001 demonstrate that the 8 tablets were preserved for an extended period in a single location, superimposed upon one another, probably in a container (a stone theka?), and were most likely found together also. Although reported, investigated, and published multiple times, the tablet remains unrecovered and in private hands.

Map

Current location

Place

,

Repository

Unknown private location ,

Autopsy

none

Date

Evidence

lettering, textual-context

Text type

decree

commentary

The bibliography below is intended to reference principal editions, and not to be comprehensive of the many discussions. For a recent historical discussion, elucidating the First Punic War context, see Lombardo, Mario. 2018. «Entella tra i Cartaginesi e i Romani, ovvero da chi erano stati espulsi gli Entellini». In Munus Laetitiae. Studi miscellanei offerti a Maria Letizia Lazzarini, a cura di Francesco Camia, Lavinio Del Monaco, e Michela Nocita, 2:485–98. Rome: Sapienza Universita Editrice. https://doi.org/10.13133/9788893770736.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 699041
• EDR: 154941
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 71000577
• PHI: 337188

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1117
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 32.0914
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 40.0785
• David Lewis, ‘Entella Transcription’ (Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford, 1978), Lewis Archive, CSAD.
• Giuseppe Nenci, «Sei decreti inediti da Entella», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser.3, 10, fasc. 4 (1980): 1271–75, at 1271 no.1
• David Asheri e Giuseppe Nenci, «Testi e traduzione», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser. 3, 12, fasc. 3 (1982): 775–85, at 775 no.1
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 204
• Giuseppe Nenci, «I decreti da Entella I-V», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia ser.3, 21, fasc. 1 (1991): 137–45, at 139 no.1
• L. Porciani, «I decreti: testo e traduzione», in Da un’antica città di Sicilia. I decreti di Entella e Nakone. Catalogo della mostra, a c. di Carmine Ampolo (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2001), 11–31, at 23 no. C2
• Carmine Ampolo, Anna Magnetto, e Leone Porciani, «Note per una nuova edizione delle tavolette da Entella», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 6, fasc. 1 (2001): 1–10, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24308311, at 5

Discussion

• Carmine Ampolo, «Giuseppe Nenci e i decreti di Entella e Nakone: per una riconsiderazione della vicenda antica e moderna», in In ricordo di Giuseppe Nenci, a c. di Carmine Ampolo, Andrea Giardina, e Anna Magnetto (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021), 83–98, at 91-93
• Randall Souza, ‘Entella: A Resilient Ancient Sicilian Community’, American Journal of Archaeology 128, no. 4 (2024): 493–525, https://doi.org/10.1086/731502, at 507

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

6/6/2024