ISic004429: ISic004429
- ID
- ISic004429
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- moulding
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1989 (IGASM I) with changes based on Gallavotti edition ;
- Calderone, Jeffery: --]οι Κλεοι[? / Κυβοι[? ;
- Garducci: ---]το͂ι Κύβο̄ι ;
- Lejeune: [datif d’anthroponyme] + το͂ι Κυβοί[ο ;
- Gallavotti: Μυρ]το̄ὶ Κυβοῖ[τις ;
- Manni Piraino: [---].οικκυβοι[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of moulding.
- Object type
- moulding
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found in Megara Iblea, near tomb 476 in the necropolis excavations of Orsi, 1899.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 10869
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
6th — 5th century BCE (600 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
According to Manni Piraino (1975), the object does not have the size and characteristics to be interpreted as a funerary stele. However, the fragmentary nature of the document and the state of preservation of the support do not allow us to come to any definite conclusion, nor therefore to exclude that it is a stele. The inscription may contain an ethnic name derived from the toponym Κύβος, an African site near Utica. This reconstruction, suggested by Gallavotti, would have interesting historical implications on the frequentation of Sicily in the Archaic period by people from North Africa. According to Gallavotti the first part could be integrated with the name of a woman, such as Μυρτώι, Κιττώι, Καλλιστώι, Τιτώι and the like.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- EDH: -
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- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1089
- S. Calderone e S.L. Agnello, «Megara Hyblaea (Augusta). Tombe arcaiche», Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 74 (1949): 193–99, at 198ff., fig. 6
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.29
- Margherita Guarducci, «Gli alfabeti della Sicilia arcaica», Kokalos 10–11 (1965 1964): 465–88, at 475, pl. 28.12
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at 316, fig. 154
- Michel Lejeune, « Notes d’épigraphie sicilienne », Kokalos 16 (1970): 16‑29, at 22ff., pl. I.3
- C. Gallavotti, «Scritture arcaiche della Sicilia e di Rodi», Helikon 15–16 (1976 1975): 71–117, at 111ff.
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 146-147, no. 10 (ph.)
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Megara e Selinunte, 1st ed., vol. 1 (Milano: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1989), at 11
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.29
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Valentina Mignosa
- James Chartrand
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 8/9/2021