ISic030298: Entella 5 = A1, Entella thanks those who helped in the synoikismos

Apparatus criticus

• Text by Prag based upon photographs;
• 3: Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91: Γναί<ου>ου (after Lejeune, ASNP 1982, p.792-94; contra Daux 84, p.393)
  
• 4: Lewis 78: °ππίου · Πανάμουο; Nenci 80: ἱππίου · Πανάμου; Asheri-Nenci 82 app.crit.: (wrongly) ascribes reading Ἱππίου to Anglicus interpres
  
• 13: other edd.: πόλιος; SEG 30: πο- omitted
  
• 14: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: κατ ἅπαντος
  
• 15: other edd.: κατακαλεῖσθαι ἐς τ[ο]ὺς
  
• 16: Lewis 78: ἐξι.ατ.ήσαντας (transl: ‘assisted? (word undeciphered)’); Nenci 80: ἐξ̣̣ι.ατ.ήσανταν; SEG 30: ἐξι.ατ.ήσαντας; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91, Nenci 93: ἐξυ[πηρε]τήσαντας; Lombardo 97, p.1039: ἐπ̣ι̣β̣ο̣α̣θ̣ο̣ήσαντας; Porciani 01: ἐξυ̣[πηρε]τ̣ή̣σαντας; Ampolo et al. 2001, Souza 24: ἐσβ̣ο̣αθ̣ο̣ήσαντας
  
• 17: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: ικισμ[ὸ]ν; Nenci 91, Nenci 93: ικισμὸ̣ν
  
• 18: Dubois 89: -λίων
  
• 19: Variant form of the numerals in Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89; significant variation Lombardo 97, p.1042
  
• 20: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91, Nenci 93: τ[ὸ]; slightly variant form of the second numeral in Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89
  
• 21: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: Ταυ̣α̣ι̣σχεηνων; Manganaro 90, p.400 n.41: τῶ̣ν̣ δ̣ὲ̣ Σχερ̣ί̣νων (after Bejor, ASNP 1982, p.834); Nenci 91, 93: τᾶμ Σχηρίνων; Lombardo 97, p.1040-42: ἡπτα (num) Σχερίνων (misreported by SEG 47.1419); BE 106 (1993), 717 (Dubois): Ταμσχεήνων; the numeral also varies across these readings
  
• 22: Nenci 91, Nenci 93: χριθᾶν
  
• 23: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Nenci 91: numeral as H; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 93: numeral omitted (Nenci 83, p.1001 states omitted in error, H to be read; cf. SEG 32, 914); Dubois 89: H with double bar; Lombardo 97, p.1043: aporia; Porciani 01: [.]
  
• 24: Porciani 01: Θεώδωρος
  
• 25: Lewis 78: Αἰσχύλ[ο]ς; Nenci 80, SEG 30: Αἰσχύ[ο]ς; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Daux 84, p.393: Αἰσχύ[λο]ς; Asheri-Nenci 82, app.crit. reports: ‘Αἰσχύ]ο[ς Angl. interp.’; Porciano 01, Souza 24: Αἰσχυλὶς; Slightly variant form of third numeral in SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89
  
• 26: Slightly variant form of the numerals in Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89
  
• 27: Slightly variant form of the numeral in Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91, Nenci 93: Κορ<ό>ουιος (after Lejeune, ASNP 1982, p.792-94)
  
• 28: Slightly variant form of the second numeral in Nenci 91, Nenci 93
  
• 29: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 91, Nenci 93: ἐσγράψαντες (corrected by Lombardo 97, p.1040).

Physical description

Support

Description

Bronze tablet, no measurements; rectangular with triangular pediment; border attached by nails on all sides except base; an additional strip divides the pediment from the rectangular body; 3 nail holes, at top middle, bottom right, bottom left.

Object type

lamina

Material

bronze

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Lines 1-5 are roughly centred in the tympanon of the tablet. From line 6, the text is sited on the main rectangular body of the tablet. The left hand margin is ‘justified’, the right not. Line 15 exceeds the left hand margin by one letter space; the implication of both the position of the initial kappa and its form would seem to be that the engraver initially omitted it.

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; and now Souza 2024.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 697651
• EDR: 154889
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1121
• 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 1274 no.5
• 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 778 no.5
• 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 208
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Metoikismos-metaphora di poleis in Sicilia: il caso dei Geloi di Phintias e la relativa documentazione epigrafica», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 20 (1990): 391–408, at 400
• 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.5
• Giuseppe Nenci, Alla ricerca di Entella (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1993), at no. 42 n.5
• Mario Lombardo, «Il decreto V di Entella: note di lettura», in Seconde giornate internazionali di studi sull’area elima (Gibellina, 22-26 ottobre 1994), vol. 2, 3 voll. (Pisa, Gibellina: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1997), 1038–47, at 1038-1047
• 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 13 no. A1
• 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 A1
• 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 504-505, decree A1

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