ISic030297: Entella 4 = B1, honours for Tiberius Claudius Antiatas
- ID
- ISic030297
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text by Prag based upon photographs;
- 1: other edd.: Σωίου; Dubois 89: Σωιου; other edd.: καὶ
- 2: Nenci 93: Μάμον
- 6: other edd.: μεγάλας
- 8: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: κατ ἅπαν-
- 9: other edd.: καιρόν δεδόχθαι
- 10: Nenci 91, Nenci 93:τέχνα; other edd.: τέκνα; other edd.: δάμου
- 11: Lewis 78: ἐπιστ.ν-; other edd.: ἐπιστῶν- (except Nenci 91, comm. p.142: ‘da segnalare il sicuro ἐπίστανται’; cf. SEG 40, 785; BE 1993, 717)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Bronze tablet, dimensions estimated by Ampolo, Magnetto and Porciani 2001; rectangular with triangular pediment; border attached by nails to upper edges of pediment only; 4 nail holes, at corners of the rectangular body of the tablet.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 15.5 cm, width: 10.5 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Entire text is sited on the main rectangular body of the tablet. The tympanon is occupied by a depiction of a triple-plumed helmet that intrudes down into lines 1-3, which it divides. The text maintains a left-hand margin of c.1 letter space, the left margin being ‘justified’, the right not. The empty space after the text is equivalent to 6 or 7 lines of text.
- 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
First Punic War (264-241 BCE), and commonly attributed to the second half of the war. (264 BC – 241 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
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; and Souza 2024.https://doi.org/10.13133/9788893770736. See also Souza 2024.
The helmet depicted on the upper part of the tablet bears close similarity to those found on the relief moulded heads on several of the contemporary Latin rostra from the vicinity of the Egadi islands.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1120
- 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 1273 no.4
- 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 777 no.4
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 207
- 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 141 no.4
- Giuseppe Nenci, Alla ricerca di Entella (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1993), at 40 no. 4
- Carmine Ampolo, a c. di, Da un’antica città di Sicilia. I decreti di Entella e Nakone (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2001), at B1
- 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 506
- 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
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
- 3/15/2025