ISic020072: ISic020072

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: ISic020072
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: lekythos
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of foot of a black-glaze lekythos.
Object type: lekythos
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 2.1 cm, dim: 13 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the foot. The numeral or symbol has been highlighted with white painting in modern times to make it more legible.
Text condition: incomplete text_condition, legible
Letter heights: Line 1: 10, 25mm
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 , 54103
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

According to Agostiniani (1977) the text consists of numerical symbols that would have the value of one obolus and a half in the system of Epidaurus and Thespies. See for a comparison, as suggested by Agostiniani (1977) Tod 1911-1912, pp.105, 109.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Discussion

M.N. Tod, ‘The Greek Numeral Notation’, Annual of the British School at Athens 18 (1912 1911): 98–132, at 105, 109

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

12/3/2020