ISic030296: Entella 3 = Nakone A: decree of reconciliation

Apparatus criticus

• Text by Prag, based upon photographs;
• 1: : Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: Φιλ[ ; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 91 (contra Daux 84, p.394): Φιλ[ωνίδα?]; Dubois 89: Φι[λ--]
  
• 2: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: τεταρτᾶι; SEG 30 (app.crit.): ‘perhaps ἔδοξεν̣’ [vac? etc.] cf. Asheri 84, p.1260.
  
• 3: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: κάθα
  
• 4: SEG 30: κο[ινὰ]; Ampolo-Erdas 19: κοιν̣α̣; other edd.: κ̣ο[ινὰ]
  
• 5: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: Νακωνα̣ί̣ων̣; Nenci 91a: Νακωναίων; note that in συμφέρει the vertical of the first Ε was never cut; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: [ὁμονο]- ; SEG 30, Dubois 89, Ampolo-Erdas 19: ὁμον[ο]-; other edd.: ὁμον̣[ο]-
  
• 6: : SEG 30: παργεναθ̣έν-; Ampolo-Erdas 19: παργεναθέν-; other edd.: παργεναθ̣[έ]ν-
  
• 7: other edd.: Ἀπελλιχος; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: Ἀδ̣είδα; Porciani 01, Ampolo-Erdas 19: Ἀλ̣είδα; Nenci 91: Ἀλείδα; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: [..]κ[-; SEG 30: Δεκ[.]-; SEG 30 (app.crit.): Δεκ[.?.]; other edd.: Δεκ[ί]-
  
• 8: other edd.: συμφερόντω<ν π>ᾶσι; Porciani 01: συμφερόντ̣ων π<ᾶ>σι; the letters ΝΠ are inserted above the Α on the tablet and the Τ is very cramped with an oddly doubled cross-bar, the cutter perhaps originally wrote ΣΥΜΦΕΡΟΝ ΠΑΣΙ; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: συ<ν>ε[βού]-; other edd.: συνεβο[ύ]-.
  
• 9: SEG 30: τᾶ̣ι; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: τεταρτᾶι; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: ἱσταμένου | τῶν; SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: ἁλίαν; Ampolo-Erdas 19: ἁλ̣ιαν̣; om. Nenci 80
  
• 10: other edd.: τῶν (ad init.); Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: πολιτᾶ[ν] (ad init.); Porciani 01: πολιτᾶν̣; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: συνατάγειν; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: τῶν πολιτ[ᾶν] (ad fin.); SEG 30: τῶν πολιτᾶν; Porciani 01: τῶμ πολιτᾶν̣
  
• 11: Lewis 78, Nenci 80: [ἐς]
  
• 12: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: προγρ̣̣α-
  
• 13: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: <ὑπ>ενάντιοι; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: <ὑπ>εναντίοι; Porciani 01: ὑ̣πεναντίοι; the cutter perhaps originally wrote ΕΠΑΝΤΙΟΙ, the ΥΠ are inserted above the Ε, while the Ν appears overstruck on a Π; other edd.: ἐν
  
• 14: Lewis 78: προγ̣ρ̣αψ̣ά̣ντω; Nenci 80: προγ̣ρ̣αψ̣ά̣ντω̣; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 91: προγραψά̣ντω̣; Dubois 89: προγραψάντω̣; Porciani 01: προγραψάντω; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: οἱ [δὲ]; other edd.: οἱ δὲ
  
• 15: other edd.: κλαρογραφήσαντες; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: χωρ̣ὶ̣ς ἑ[κ]α̣τ[έ]-; SEG 30: χωρ̣ὶ̣ς ἑκα̣τέ-; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: χωρὶς; other edd.: χωρ̣ὶς
  
• 16: other edd.: ὑδρίας; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: ἕνα ἑ[κα]-; Nenci 91: ἕωα ἐξ ἑκα-
  
• 17: other edd.: λοι[π]ῶν πολιτᾶν; Lewis 78: ποτικλαρ̣ωντω̣ τ̣ρ̣εῖς; Nenci 80: ποτικλαρ̣ώντω τ̣ρ̣εῖς; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: τ̣ρεῖς
  
• 18: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ποτ; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: ἔξ̣ω; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἀγχιστε<ί>αν; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: ἀγχιστε<ι>ᾶν; Nenci 91: ἀγχιστειᾶν; other edd.: ἀγχιστε̣ιᾶν
  
• 19: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: μεθιστάσθαι; Gray 15: ἔστ<ω>ν; Lewis 78: αὐ̣[τ]ῶντα; Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: αὐ[τ]ῶντα
  
• 20: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ΑΝΚΥΟΙΣ; SEG 30 app. crit.: ‘ΑΝΔΗΟΙΣ, informant, who thinks it ought to be ἀλλάλ̣οις, “but it is not”.’; Asheri-Nenci 82: ἀλ̣λ̣άλ̣οις (in app. crit.: ‘sive ἀνδροῖς (?), ΑΝΔ̣ΟΙΣ phot.’); other edd.: ἀλ̣λ̣άλ̣οις; the reading here was suggested by Ampolo.
  
• 21: other edd.: πάσας
  
• 22: other edd.: ἑξήκο<ν>τα; phot.: ΕΞΗΚΟΜΤΑ; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἀ̣ερθ̣εωντι; other edd.: ἀερθ̣έωντι; other edd.: καὶ οἱ ποτὶ
  
• 23: Lewis 78: συλ̣λ̣ᾶχόντες; Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: συλ̣λ̣αχόντες; other edd.: συλ̣λαχόντες
  
• 25: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: [ρ]ῶντες; SEG 30, Nenci 91: ρῶντες; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: ἀγ<χ>ιστείας; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: καθᾶι ἐγράπται; SEG 30: κάθα γ̣έγραπται; Dubois 89, Nenci 91: καθὰ γέγραπται
  
• 26: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: κάθα; other edd.: τοῖς; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: ἐμπρ̣ο[σ]-; SEG 30: ἐμπροσ-
  
• 27: Lewis 78, Nenci 80: [θ]εν; Lewis 78, Nenci 80: οἱ ω̣ιπομνα..ν ἐς τ..[ ; other edd.: οἱ δὲ ἱερομνάμονες τᾶι θ̣υ̣σ[ί]αι
  
• 28: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: [θ]υ̣όντω̣; Ampolo-Erdas 19: α<ί͂>γα; other edd.: αἶ<γ>α; Lewis 78: [τὰ]ν θ̣υσίαν {σ}ών; Nenci 80: [τὰ]ν θ̣υσίαν{σ}ῶν; other edd.: τὰν θ̣υσίαν; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: λεύκαν; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἐστι
  
• 29: Lewis 78: δὲ̣ και α<ἱ>; Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: δὲ καὶ α<ἱ>
  
• 30: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: θ̣υόντω καθ̣; SEG 30: θυόντω̣ καθ̣; Lewis 78, SEG 30, Porciani 01: ἕ̣καστον; Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἐνιαυτόν; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἁμε̣ρᾶι; other edd.: ἁμέραι; Nenci 91: τοῖς; other edd.: τοῖ[ς] (except SEG 30: τοῖς̣)
  
• 31: Lewis 78, Nenci 80: γ̣ενετόρεσσι καὶ ἐ̣[ν] ὁμο̣νο<ί>αι ε.ειον; SEG 30: ὁμονοίαι ἱέρειον; other edd.: ὁμο̣νο<ί>αι ἱερεῖον; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 91: ὅκα (ὅ κα first in Asheri 82 / Asheri 84, p.1261, cf. Gauthier, ASNP 1984, p.845). Lewis 78, Nenci 80: δ<ο>κιμασ|τικᾶι; Savalli, ASNP 1982, p.1065: δοκιμάζον|τ<α>ι; other edd.: δοκιμάζων|τι
  
• 32: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: πολῖται ἑορταζόντω (i.e. πάντες omitted)
  
• 33: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: τ̣ὰ<ς ἀ>δελφοθ̣ετίας; Ampolo-Erdas 19: τ̣ὰ`ς ἀ´δελφοθ̣ετίας; SEG 30: τὰ<ς ἀ>δελφοθ̣ετίας; Porciani 01: τ̣ὰς <ἀ>δελφοθ̣ετίας; the cutter perhaps originally wrote: ΚΑΤΑΣΑΔΕ; Lewis 78: τό̣δε; Nenci 80, SEG 30: τόδε
  
• 34: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: νο[ι] ο[ἱ]; in the photo one reads: ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: Δ̣ιὸς; SEG 30, Ampolo-Erdas 19: τοῦ; other edd.: [τοῦ]; Ampolo-Erdas 19: Ὀλυμπίο̣[υ]; other edd.: Ὀλυμπίου
  
• 35: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: ἀναθ̣έ̣ντω; other edd.: ἀναθ̣έντω

Physical description

Support

Description

Rectangular bronze tablet, estimated measurements by Ampolo, Magnetto and Porciani 2001 offer maxima of c.30 cm high x c.22 cm wide; border attached by nails to top edge only; 1 nail hole, upper left; upper right corner damaged, with possible traces of lower edge of nail hole.

Object type

lamina

Material

bronze

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 30 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text fills the face of the tablet. Lines 1-3 are indented by c.2 letters, and line 2 is surely complete and ended with a vacat occupied by the now lost nail hole upper right. Lines 34 and 35 appear compressed (implying the engraver was aware when he began line 34 that the text would run over; the vacat of line 35 is only partial, as line 34 falls towards the lower edge as it proceeds).

Text condition

complete

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin

Nakone

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 is intended to cover principal editions only. The site of Nakone remains unidentified, presumably in the same region of central western Sicily as Entella itself.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 697227
• EDR: 136335
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 64400327
• PHI: 337190

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1119
• 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 1272-1273 no.3
• 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 776-777 no.3
• David Asheri, «Il decreto di Nakone (SEG, XXX, nr. 1119): Addenda et Corrigenda», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 14, fasc. 4 (1984): 1259–61, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24306912.
• 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.
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 206
• David Asheri, « Formes et procedures de reconciliation dans les cités grecques: le décret de Nakone », in Symposion 1982. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, éd. par F.J. Fernández Nieto (Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau, 1989), 135‑46.
• 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 140-141 no.3
• 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 27 Nakone A
• 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 5-6
• Benjamin D. Gray, Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC, First edition., Oxford Classical Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), at 37-38
• Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at App. 3

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

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