ISic030299: Entella 6 = C1, renewal of friendship between the Entellinoi and the Assorinoi

Apparatus criticus

Text by Prag based upon photographs and visual inspection;
1: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Dubois 89: [---]; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 93: [ἐπὶ ἱερομνάμονος Λευκίου]; Loomis 94: ἱερομναμ̣ονος
2: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Dubois 89: [---]; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 93: [τοῦ Πακκίου Εὐμενιδείου]
3: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, , SEG 30, Dubois 89: [--- ἔδοξε]; Asheri-Nenci 82, Nenci 93: [ἕκται ἐφ᾿ ἱκάδα ἔδοξε]
4: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: [τᾶι]; Loomis 94: [ἔδοξ]ε̣ τ[ᾶ]ι; Porciani 01: ἔ[δοξ]ε̣ τᾶ̣[ι]; Lewis 78: ἁ<λ>ίαι; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: τᾶ[ι βο]υ̣λᾶι
5: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: [ἐπειδὴ]; Loomis 94: ἐ[πει]δὴ̣; Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: μπροσ[θ]εν̣
6: Lewis 78: νο[ις] ὑ̣πά[ρ]χ̣ε̣ι; Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: νο[ις] ὑπά[ρ]χ̣ε̣ι; Nenci 93: νο[ις] ὑπά[ρ]χει; Loomis 94, Porciani 01: νο[ι]ς̣ ὑπαρ<χ>ει; lamina: ΥΠΑΡΓΗΚ̣ΕΙ
7: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: [ὁμο]ίως
9: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: [ξάν]των
10: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30, Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: [δύν]αμιν
14: lamina: ΕΥΝΟΙΛΝ
21: Lewis 78, Nenci 80, SEG 30: πότ ; Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89, Nenci 93: ποτ[ὶ]; Asheri-Nenci 82, comm. ascribes πότ’ to the Anglicus interpres

Physical description

Support

Description: Rectangular bronze plaque with triangular pediment; border strips attached by nails/rivets to all edges except bottom; strips now largely missing from both sides; strips c.0.5 cm wide; 3 nail holes, top middle, bottom left (damaged), bottom right (damaged). The sides of the main body of the plaque are 16.4 cm tall on right and 15.8 on the left.
Object type: lamina
Material: bronze
Condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 20.4 cm, width: 16.3 cm, depth: 0.1-0.2 cm

Inscription

Layout: Lines 1-3 are roughly centred in the tympanon (although note slight compression at end of line 3); Lines 4-22 occupy the main body of the tablet and the left margin is justified with a margin of c.1 letter space (with the exception of line 4, which is set hard to the left); the right margin is not justified. Line 23 is roughly centred, with larger letters.
Text condition: complete
Letter heights: Line 1-22: 4-7mm; Line 23: 10-12mm
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. The tablet was acquired by the Harvard Art Museums in 1991 (along with the fake copy of tablet A2 (VIII Nenci)), before being returned to the Palermo Museum in 1997.

Current location

Place: Palermo, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas ,
Autopsy: observed on display in 2001 and later
Map

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

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 edition of Loomis 1994 is the key development, subsequent to the full scientific analysis of the bronze. 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.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor