ISic020083: ISic020083

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: ISic020083
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: 2.5 cm, width: 3 cm, depth: 1 cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the foot.
Text condition: incomplete text_condition, legible
Letter heights: Line 1: 9mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Segesta
Provenance found: Found during the excavations (1968) 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.
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Current location

Place: Palermo, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 54351
Autopsy: Mignosa 2021-12-14
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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 is an abbreviation or a numerical symbol. See for a comparison, as suggested by Agostiniani (1977), the symbol to indicate the number 100, attested in Tespie and Orcomeno (Tod 1911-1912, p.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 109

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

11/27/2020