Online resources

Web sites of general interest

1. Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Giovanni Treccani
   Web page about the Elymians written by G. Nenci for the Enciclopedia Italiana, appendix V, 1992, Elimi.
   
2. Wikipedia: Elymians
   Wikipedia page concerning the Elymians. The information offered here is not for specialists, but it does include maps.
   
3. Brill Online Reference Works: Elymoi (G. Falco)
   Web page of the encyclopedia Der Neue Pauly, Brill Publisher (Brill's New Pauly). Besides “Elymoi” there are more entries like “Elymisch” (J. Untermann), “Elymos” (R. Bloch), “Entella” (G. Falco), “Eryx” (K. Ziegler, G. Falco, R. Bloch), “Segesta” (G. Falco et alii), “Italien, Sprachen” (G. Meiser). [in English]
   
4. Sicily
   Encyclopedia Britannica entry devoted to Sicily, in which the population of the Elymians is mentioned.
   
5. Segesta
   Encyclopedia Britannica entry devoted to Segesta.
   

Institutions, centers for study and research

1. SAET (Laboratorio di Storia, Archeologia, Epigrafia, Tradizione dell'Antico), Scuola Normale Superiore
   The SAET (Laboratory of History, Archaeology, Epigraphy and Traditions from Antiquity) of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, directed by Prof. Anna Magnetto, takes care of the final publication of excavation results in the ancient settlements of Segesta (Calatafimi / Segesta, Trapani) and Entella (Contessa Entellina, Palermo) including the Elymian area.
   

Images

1. Images of the excavations at Entella
   Photo gallery devoted to the excavations of SAET at Entella.
   
2. Silver coins from Segesta
   Silver coins from Segesta (London, British Museum), ap. A. Cutroni Tusa, "Emissioni frazionarie d'argento da Segesta", in AA.VV., "Atti delle Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull'Area elima (Gibellina, 19-22 settembre 1991)", II, Pisa - Gibellina, 1992, table LXXXV, 2, 3, 4, 6. The paper is online as a PDF (2012_11_29_10_40_00.pdf).
   

Texts

1. L. Agostiniani, "Alfabetizzazione della Sicilia pregreca", in "Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico" IV, 2012, pp. 139-164.
   Paper included in the proceedings of the seminar Convivenze etniche e contatti di culture. Atti del Seminario di Studi Università degli Studi di Milano (23-24 novembre 2009).
   
2. L. Agostiniani, "Epigrafia e lingua elime: un bilancio", in AA.VV., "Guerra e Pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-III a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra. Atti delle quinte giornate internazionali di studi sull'area elima e la Sicilia occidentale nel contesto mediterraneo, Erice, 12-15 settembre 2003", Pisa, 2006, II, pp. 683-688.
   Shortened version of the paper by L. Agostiniani for the "Quinte Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull'Area elima" (Pisa, 2006), published in "Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology".
   
3. M. Lejeune, "La langue élyme d'après des graffites de Ségeste (Ve siècle)", "Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres" CXIII, 2 (1969), pp. 237-242.
   1969 paper by M. Lejeune about the epigraphic finds in the Grotta Vanella Segestan depot.
   
4. A.L. Prosdocimi, "Michel Lejeune et l'Italie antique", "Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres" CXLV, 1, 2001, pp. 175-183 (: 179-180) = "Hommage à Michel Lejeune", Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, 19 janvier 2001, pp. 33-41.
   Paper by A.L. Prosdocimi dealing with the research of M. Lejeune in the field of languages of Ancient Italy, including Elymian.
   
5. A catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Sicily edited by R. Stuart Poole (London, Longmans & Co., 1876)
   A complete reproduction of the volume A catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Sicily, edited by R. Stuart Poole (London, 1876). The link refers to pages 130-137 of this volume, dedicated to Segestan coins.
   
6. Silver coins from Segesta
   Silver coins from Segesta (London, British Museum), ap. A. Cutroni Tusa, "Emissioni frazionarie d'argento da Segesta", in AA.VV., "Atti delle Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull'Area elima (Gibellina, 19-22 settembre 1991)", II, Pisa - Gibellina, 1992, table LXXXV, 2, 3, 4, 6.
   
7. Atti delle Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull'Area elima
   PDF version of Proceedings of the Giornate Internazionali di Studi sull'Area elima, with links to individual contributions. The materials are freely downloadable upon registration on the SAET website.
   

Museums and collections

1. The Giuseppe Nenci Antiquarium at Entella
   Website of the town Contessa Entellina, containing the page of the Municipal Antiquarium, named since 2000 in memory of Prof. Giuseppe Nenci.
   
2. Giuseppe Nenci Antiquarium online
   The SAET website hosts a rich and updated section devoted to the Giuseppe Nenci Antiquarium. Since 1995, the municipal Antiquarium has been collecting archaeological and epigraphic materials from the excavation campaigns in Entella by the Scuola Normale, which are illustrated in the related photo gallery. The gallery includes thematic areas devoted to clay, stone, and glass materials, inscriptions and coins found during the archaeological investigations that over the years returned important documents of the city from its earliest stages, dating from the presence of Elymian peoples to the modern age. For each document, the corresponding page offers photographs, identifying data, and bibliography.
   In particular, among the inscriptions on pottery, some of which are of Greek linguistic relevance (such as E9 on a black-paint cup), the one on a black-paint cup (5th cent. BC) with a dextroverse graffito E 3324: ατα is notable as probably belonging to the Elymian language. Among the stone inscriptions - documenting the condition of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism of the Elymian area and Entella in the Hellenistic age - is the dextroverse inscription from tomb 89 of necropolis A, in which, in a linguistically Greek text, the personal name of the deceased, Τακίμα, most likely belongs to the epichoric repertoire.
   
3. "American Numismatic Society" (New York), Greek Collection
   The ANS (American Numismatic Society) page, through MANTIS (Mantis, A Numismatic Technologies Integration Service), provides access to a database including a great number of the numismatic collections of the New York museum. Segestan coins (more than 60 including didracma, tetradracma, litres and triassi) and coins from Eryx (2), constituting the Greek Collection, are visible online, with short but complete descriptions and, sometimes, images of very high quality.
   

Collections of texts and digital libraries

1. "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites", in "Perseus Digital Library" vers. 4.0 (ed. G.R. Crane, Tufts University)
   The Segesta page is dedicated to ancient (Greek and Roman) sources about Segesta and its history, provides a description of the archaeological remains of the city, and contains the related pages of Thucydides and Diodorus.
   

Institutions

1. Segesta Archaeological Park
   The Archaeological Park of Segesta website allows the user to select pages related to the 'Multimedia Guide to the Archaeological Park of Segesta', and its sections 'Introduction', 'Theater', 'Temple', 'Bouleuterion', 'Agora', 'Castle', and 'Rupestrian settlement’, which illustrate (with English subtitles also) the Park and the different areas under excavation. It also includes links to descriptions of other sites in the Trapani area, including the archaeological area Rocca di Entella, with a rich photo gallery of the buildings and excavated materials, and a 3D elaboration of the medieval fortified palace by SAET.