ISic020049: ISic020049

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: 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: mm

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 , 54043

Autopsy

None

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

• 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 471
• Vincenzo Tusa, «Frammenti di ceramica con graffiti da Segesta V», Kokalos 16 (1970): 223–49, tavv.LXV–LXVI, at no.69
• Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 49

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