ISic020044: ISic020044
- ID
- ISic020044
- Language
- Elymian
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- lekythos
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of wall of a black-glaze lekythos or skyphos.
- Object type
- lekythos
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The sign is placed on the outer surface. 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: 12mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Found during the excavations (from 1957 to 1977) by the Soprintendenza alle AntichitĂ 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 , 54137
- Autopsy
- Mignosa 2021-12-16
- Map
Date
500—480 BCE (500 BC – 480 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, material-context, lettering
Text type
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
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
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- Printed editions
- Discussion
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
- 12/2/2020