ISic020043: ISic020043

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: ISic020043
Language: Elymian
Text type: unknown
Object type: small cup of local manufacture
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of wall of a black-glaze cup.
Object type: small cup of local manufacture
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 2.7 cm, dim: 9 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The sign is placed on the outer surface.
Text condition: incomplete text_condition, legible
Letter heights: Line 1: 12x29mm
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.
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Current location

Place: Palermo, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 54667
Autopsy: Mignosa 2021-12-16
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Date

500—480 BCE (500 BC – 480 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Double-headed axe (bipennis) sign recurrent as a mark throughout the ancient world. Agostiniani (1977, p.16). In the Elymian ceramics the sign is once painted as a decoration (see Ambrosini 1970, p.464).

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Discussion

R. Ambrosini, «Problemi e ipotesi sulla lingua dei graffiti di Segesta», Rendiconti della Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche dell’Accademia dei Lincei 25 (1970): 461–74, at 464

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

12/2/2020