ISic001895: I.Sicily inscription 001895
- ID
- ISic001895
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- label
- Object type
- skyphos
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Tullio 2016, checked against imgaes
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A red-figure skyphos, almost completely recomposed from fragments, fabric Munsell 5YR 6/4 (so Tullio 2008: 71 n.19).
- Object type
- skyphos
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 16.8 cm, width: 11.4 (foot) - 17.0 (mouth) cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is incised into the top of the scene immediately below the upper border, on each of the two sides of the skyphos.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cephaloedium
- Provenance found
- Found in the tomb goods of sep.546 in excavation of an area of hellenistic necropolis in ex proprieta Vazzarna, immediately to the north of area excavated in prop. Portera, both adjacent to via L. Capuana, excavation at some period after 1976, not specified in the publication. The piece is said by Tullio 2016 to be on display in the Himera antiquarium.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Imera, Italy
- Repository
- Parco Archeologico di Himera e Antiquarium , K86/255
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Tomb of the first half of the C4 BCE (399 BC – 350 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Tullio notes that the name is attested in / references Aristophanes Clouds, lines 43-56, and the vase has comedic scenes.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/29/2025