ISic020045: ISic020045

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
ISic020045
Language
Elymian
Text type
unknown
Object type
vessel
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of wall of a black-glaze vessel.
Object type
vessel
Material
ceramic
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cm, width: 4.5 cm, depth: 8 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: 19x2 ca. (part of the sign is lost).mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin
Segesta
Provenance found
Found during the excavations (on the 24th of September 1965) 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 , 54332
Autopsy
Mignosa 2021-12-15
Map

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

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Discussion

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Valentina Mignosa
Contributors
Last revision
12/2/2020