ISic004484: ISic004484

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic004484
Language: Sikel
Text type: commercial (?)
Object type: pebble (rock)
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Manganaro 1961

Physical description

Support

Description: Pebble (rock).
Object type: pebble (rock)
Material: basalt
Condition: complete
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: complete
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Adranon
Provenance found: Described by Manganaro (1961) as coming from the area near the Greek settlement of Adrano (contrada Cartalemmi, "vicino ad un tratto delle mura cosiddette dionigiane") and after attributed by the same editor to the Mendolito area on the basis of the palaeography (the arrow-shaped alpha)..
Map

Current location

Place: Adrano, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Adrano ,
Autopsy: No Autopsy
Map

Date

end of the 6th-5th century BCE (Agostiniani 2009). (520 BC – 400 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

commercial (?)

commentary

The inscription according to Agostiniani (2009, 115) is a numeral and a commercial abbreviation, most likely coming from the Greek area of Adrano, on the basis of the first editor's report, Manganaro (1961, 111), who attributed the document to the area of the Sikel settlement of Mendolito only later and on the basis of the presence of one of the two alphas in the shape of an arrow, ductus that occurs - even if not exclusively - throughout the 'Sikel' area of Sicily. See ISic003364.

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

1/21/2022