Forme e usi del territorio. Indizi dalle fonti epigrafiche

This paper attempts to address the definition of land and territory in Sicily in some of its different forms – political entity, space of several cultural entities, place of exchange and economic production, civic space with multiple functions - through the study of three significant epigraphic evidence produced between the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. The documents analysed are a contract from Olympia (Dubois, I.Sicile I, no. 28; 530-500 BCE); a sales contract from around Gela (Arena, Iscrizioni I, no. 77; 500-470 BCE) and a sales contract from Camarina (Dubois, I.Sicile I, no. 124; c. 300 BCE).