LE NUOVE EPIGRAFI DA HALAESA ARCHONIDAEA E LE TABULAE HALAESINAE: UN PRIMO BILANCIO

Abstract

The greek epigraphic corpus of Halaesa Archonidea has been enriched with seven new inscriptions from the
area of the ancient town, which have been published the present author between 2019 and 2020. They are
dated on paleographic ground between the second half of the 2nd and the early 1st century B.C. and provide
many new linguistic, topographic and antiquarian elements. In particular, two small fragments belonging to
the lost Tabulae Halaesinae (IG XIV 352), a fragment of land lease (“Halaesa misthosis”), and IGDS I 197,
which has been re-edited by the present author following personal autopsy, suggest a rather close chronology.
In the author’s view these three documents would represent the different stages of a single process by
which the polis of Halaesa, after the crisis of the first Slave Revolt, maybe around 100 B.C., decided to recover
and lease some public lands. This process, which is comparable with that described in IG XIV 644 (Heraklea
tables), was perhaps divided as follows: : 1) decree of land recover (IGDS I 197); 2) land registration
and land lease contract (IG XIV 352); 3) new land lease contract (or lease renewal?) (“Halaesa misthosis”).