ISic020291: ISic020291
- ID
- ISic020291
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- No data
- Object type
- pitcher of local manufacture
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of handle of a pitcher of local manufacture.
- Object type
- pitcher of local manufacture
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed on the side of the handle.
- Text condition
- incomplete text_condition, legible
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 4-5mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Found during the excavations (from 1957 to 1977) by the Soprintendenza alle AntichitĂ 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 , 54090
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
4th century BCE (400 BC – 300 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
No data
commentary
This is the only inscription in the Elymian corpus that is surely identifiable as Greek. From the shape of the letters the inscription can be dated, according to Agostiniani, to a time not earlier than the Hellenistic period. Doubts about the authenticity of the inscription have been raised legitimately by Manni Piraino (1972).
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 465, 466
- Vincenzo Tusa, «Frammenti di ceramica con graffiti da Segesta V», Kokalos 16 (1970): 223–49, tavv.LXV–LXVI, at no.128
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Epigrafia siceliota», Kokalos 18–19 (1973 1972): 339–47, at 344-345
- Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 291
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
- 12/15/2020