ISic020086: ISic020086

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: ISic020086
Language: Elymian
Text type: unknown
Object type: vase of local manufacture
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I) ;
1: .ν, Lejeune 1970

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of wall of a vase of local manufacture.
Object type: vase of local manufacture
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 4.8 cm, width: 5.5 cm, depth: 0.7 cm

Inscription

Layout: The part on which the text is located is not identifiable.
Text condition: incomplete text_condition, legible
Letter heights: Line 1: at least 20-23 (part of the letters/numerals is lost).mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Segesta
Provenance found: Found during the excavations (on the 4th of August 1967) 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 , 54301
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 consists of symbols of numerals pertaining to the Elymian language (see also IAS 85).

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

12/4/2020