ISic030295: Entella 2 = C3: friendship and alliance with the Geloans

Apparatus criticus

• Text by Prag based upon photographs;
• 4: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: ἁλία[ι] κά[θ]α
  
• 5: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: [οἱ Γελ]ώιοι ὅκα τ[ὸ]; Lewis 78 marginal emendation: [οἱ Γελ]ώιοι ὅκα τε τὸ
  
• 6: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: πρότερο[ν τὰν π]όλιν ταύτα[ν ὠι]-; other edd: τὰν; other edd. (except SEG 30.1118): ὠι-
  
• 7: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: [κ]έομες καταστα[θ]έν π..έμου; other edd.: κέομες
  
• 8: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: ποτ[ὶ]; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: ἐβοά[θ]- ; Lewis 78 marginal emendation: ἐβοα[θό]-
  
• 9: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: τ[ᾶι πό]λει; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: ἱππε[ῦ]-; Lewis 78 marginal emendation, SEG 30.1118: ἵππεσ-
  
• 10: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: ἐγένο[ν]-
  
• 11: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: συμμαχία[ν]
  
• 13: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: οἰκ[έομες ἐς τ]ὸ ἐμφανὲ[ς ποι]-; other edd.: ποι-
  
• 14: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: μ[έμναντ]αι; (Lewis 78 marginal emendation: μεμνανται); Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: φιλ[ίας]
  
• 15: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: τᾶ[ς]; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: δεδ[ό]-; Nenci 93: ὄτι
  
• 17: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: Ἱστ-; other edd.: Ἰστί-
  
• 18: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: -ίας; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30.1118, Asheri-Nenci 82: συμμαχ-
  
• 19: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30.1118, Asheri-Nenci 82: -ίαν
  
• 22: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: συνθύ[ε]ιν
  
• 23: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: φ[α]ν....οιῶμες
  
• 25: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: [πό]λει τ[ᾶι ἁμᾶι]; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: π[αρ]-; Lewis 78 marginal comment: ‘someone has read practically all the missing letters’.
  
• 26: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: [ι]σ[χ]η[μένων.]; Daux 84, Dubois 89: ισχη[μένων]
  
• 27: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82: Γε[λώιων]

Physical description

Support

Description

A rectangular bronze tablet with triangular pediment; border attached by nails on all sides except base; 3 nail holes, at top middle, bottom right, bottom left (bottom pair are not symmetrically placed). Dimensions are approximate.

Object type

lamina

Material

bronze

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 22 cm, width: 15 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Lines 1-3 are centred in the tympanon of the tablet. From line 4, the text is sited on the main rectangular body of the tablet. The left margin is ‘justified’, the right is not. The letters of line 27 are slightly taller and much wider and more widely spaced than the rest.

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 text of Lewis was at least partially based upon photographs taken pre-cleaning; and the initial texts of Nenci / Nenci and Asheri were derivative of Lewis' original transcription. The bibliography is intended to cover principal editions only. 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: 699042
• EDR: 154959
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 71000576
• PHI: 337189

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1118
• 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.2
• 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.2
• G. Daux, « Notes de lecture. I. Le dossier d’Entella (Sicile): sept documents authentiques, plus un faux moderne », Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 108 (1984): 391‑96, at 391-396
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 205
• 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.2
• Giuseppe Nenci, Alla ricerca di Entella (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1993), at no. 2
• 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 25 no. C3

Discussion

• 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 passim
• 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 508

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