ISic030334: Dedication of Pantares at Olympia
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- ID
- ISic030334
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- plinth
- Text type
- votive dedication
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Jeffery 1961 (LSAG, p. 273 and no. 48), as reproduced by Arena 2002 (IGASMG II² 4). ;
- 1: Jeffery's restoration Διὸ[ς ἆθλον] το͂ Γελοαίο̄ is adopted here. Ebert 1972 restores two hexameters, Διὸ[ς ἆθλα / hίπ(π)οι νικάσας πέδο ἐ(κ)κλε]το͂ Γελοαίο̄, interpreting the dedication as the prize for a victory in the horse race. IvO 142 and earlier editions instead reconstruct a victory in the chariot race. Since the original extent of the plinth is unknown, all extended restorations remain conjectural.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a thin bronze plinth belonging to a votive statuette.
- Object type
- plinth
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 3.6 cm, width: 8.8 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- bronze
Inscription
- Layout
- The lightly engraved text follows at least three outer edges of the plinth, changing direction, and ends in a right-to-left curve towards the centre.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Lightly engraved in the local alphabet of Gela.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in the sanctuary of Zeus at , Greece.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Olympia, Sicilia
- Repository
- Archaeological Museum of Olympia
- 521
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
ca. 550–525 BCE, Dubois (ca. 525 BCE in LSAG) (550 BCE - 525 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The object was interpreted in IvO 142 as a bronze plaque attached to a larger stone base, but since Jeffery it has generally been identified as the plinth of a small bronze statuette. One dowel-hole survives, and the plinth was originally attached by two lateral clamps to a larger pedestal, probably of marble. Because neither the original dimensions of the plinth nor the statuette are preserved, the longer restorations and the identification of the represented animal remain uncertain. The dedicator is generally identified with Pantares, father of the Geloan tyrants Cleandros and Hippokrates (Hdt. 7.154), although the identification cannot be established from the inscription alone.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 329378
- PHI: 213947
- PHI: 215014
- Printed editions
- H. Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae Antiquissimae praeter Atticas in Attica repertas (Berlin: George Reimer, 1882), at 512a
- IvO Dittenberger,Purgold (1896) at 241–244 no. 142
- Otto Hoffmann, ‘Die Inschriften von Sicilien und Abu-Simbel’, in Sammlung der Griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, ed. F. Bechtel and H. Collitz, vol. 3.2.4 (Göttingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1904), at 4248
- Roehl Roehl (1907) at 34.II
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (1950), 11.1215
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (1959), 16.288
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at (1977), 27.49
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 273; 278 no. 48; pl. 53
- Ebert (1972) at 44–46 no. 5
- M.L. Lazzarini, Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica (Roma, 1976), at 299 no. 854
- C. Gallavotti, «Scritture della Sicilia ed altre epigrafi arcaiche», Helikon 17 (1977): 97–136, at 115–116
- P.A. Hansen, Carmina epigraphica graeca saeculorum VIII-V a. Chr. n. [vol. I] and ... saeculi IV a. Chr. n. [II]. «Texte und Kommentare», 12, 15. ol. I, nos. 1-465; II, nos. 466-901., 2 vols (Berlin, 1983), at 398
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 132
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 273; 278 no. 48; pl. 53; 459
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 4
- Discussion
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Gli alfabeti arcaici delle poleis siceliote e l’introduzione dell’alfabeto milesio», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia series III, 25.4 (1995): 1297–1327, at 1319, tav. CCXCI.5
- Fouquet (2022) at 149–150 fig. 2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/31/2026