ISic020036: ISic020036

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: 1 cm, dim: 8 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The sign is placed on the underside of the foot.

Text condition

incomplete text_condition, legible

Letter heights

Line 1: 11mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Segesta

Provenance found

Found during the excavations (from 1957 to 1977) 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 , 54652

Autopsy

Mignosa 2021-12-16

Map

Date

Evidence

archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Hourglass-shaped sign recurrent as a mark throughout the ancient world. Agostiniani (1977, pp.14-15) considers this type to be distinct from the other inscriptions with hourglass-shaped symbols (see IAS_38-42). However, the symbol of this inscription seems to be ascribable to the same typology.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• Vincenzo Tusa, «Nuovi frammenti di ceramica con graffiti da Segesta», Kokalos 12 (1966): 207–20, at no.2
• Michel Lejeune, « Observations sur l’épigraphie élyme », Revue des études latines 47 (1970): 133‑83, at 144
• Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 36

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

12/1/2020