ISic030300: Entella 8 = A2, decree of Entella recording good will and isopoliteia with the people of Enna
- ID
- ISic030300
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- decree
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text by Prag based upon photographs and visual inspection;
- 4: Asheri-Nenci 82, Dubois 89: Γναί<ου>ου (after Lejeune, ASNP 1982, p.792, cf. tablet V.3; contra Daux 84, p.393)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Bronze tablet, rectangular with triangular pediment; border strips attached by nails/rivets to all edges except bottom; an additional strip divides the pediment from the main body; 3 nail holes, top middle, bottom left, bottom right (damaged). The vertical edges of the rectangular section are 14.5 cm tall.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 20.5 cm, width: 12.4 (top) -12.6 (bottom) cm, depth: 0.12-0.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Lines 1-5 fill the tympanon. Line 6 is engraved on the dividing strip, set to the left, avoiding the rivets. Lines 7-22 occupy the main body of the tablet and are left justified (but not right). The blank area at the foot of the tablet is equivalent to 3-4 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. The tablet was anonymously deposited at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1998, and thence returned to the Italian authorities, and so to Palermo museum.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas ,
- Autopsy
- Observed on display
- 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
commentary
Tablet VIII (Nenci), was first published as tablet VII by Daux, and subsequently confused with a fake copy of the same. 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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 30.1123
- Georges Daux, « Un septième décret inédit d’Entella ( Sicile) », Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 106, no 1 (1982): 307‑8, https://doi.org/10.3406/bch.1982.1918, at 308
- 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 781 no.8
- 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 211
- Giuseppe Nenci, Alla ricerca di Entella (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1993), at no. 46 no.8
- 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 A2
- 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 505, decree A2
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
- 3/18/2025