ISic020020: ISic020020

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description

Fragment of foot of a black-glaze lekythos.

Object type

lekythos

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the underside of the foot. The sign has been highlighted with white painting in modern times to make it more legible.

Text condition

incomplete text_condition, legible

Letter heights

Line 1: 19mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Segesta

Provenance found

Found during the excavations (1970) by the Soprintendenza alle Antichità della Sicilia Occidentale in the area of Grotta Vanella, on the north-east slope of Monte Barbaro, 1.9km east of temple of Segesta.

Map

Current location

Place

Palermo, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 54108

Autopsy

Mignosa 2021-12-16

Map

Date

Evidence

archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Cross-shaped sign recurrent as a mark throughout the ancient world. Cf. Agostiniani 1977, p.11, which reports some parallels with Attic ceramic: Graef, Langlotz 1933, p.128, no.1523, N 456; Milne 1936, fig. 34, no.14; F.Xanthos IV, p.174, nos. 400-401.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• Vincenzo Tusa, «Frammenti di ceramica con graffiti da Segesta V», Kokalos 16 (1970): 223–49, tavv.LXV–LXVI, at no.96
• Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 20

Discussion

• B. Graef and E. Langlotz, Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen, vol. 2 (Berlin: De Gruyter & Co., 1933), at p.128, no.1523, N 456
• M.J. Milne, ‘Notes on the Graffiti’, in Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, G.M.A. Richter, L. Hall (London, New Haven: Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, 1936), 221–24, https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/146466/rec/1, at fig. 34, no.14
• H. Metzger, Fouilles de Xanthos, vol. IV (Paris: Cliencksieck, 1972), at p.174, nos. 400-401

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• Valentina Mignosa
• James Chartrand
• Michael Metcalfe
• system
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

11/30/2020