ISic020047: ISic020047

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description

Fragment of foot of a black-glaze kylix.

Object type

kylix

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: 3.5 cm, dim: 7.4 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the underside of the foot.

Text condition

incomplete text_condition, legible

Letter heights

Line 1: 30mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Segesta

Provenance found

Found in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale di Palermo (Tusa 1966, p.220, no.8) and originally from the Segesta area.

Current location

Place

Palermo, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 54650

Autopsy

Mignosa 2021-12-15

Map

Date

Evidence

archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Symbol of a five-pointed star. This sign is widespread throughout the ancient world and used in Attic ceramics sometimes as a mark, sometimes as an apotropaic symbol or as decoration. On the ceramics from Segesta it could have a purely decorative value (see Agostiniani 1977, p.17).

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.49
• R. Ambrosini, «Italica o anatolica la lingua dei graffiti segestani?», Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968): 160–72, at 163
• Michel Lejeune, « Observations sur l’épigraphie élyme », Revue des études latines 47 (1970): 133‑83, at 143, 144
• Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 47

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