ISic020318: ISic020318

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: ISic020318
Language: Elymian
Text type: dedication
Object type: lekythos
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragments of foot of a black-glaze lekythos (?).
Object type: lekythos
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragments
Dimensions: height: cm, dim:

Inscription

Layout: The text consists of two inscriptions, arranged on two different sides of the same object. The first one (face a) is on the underside of the foot: it is arranged in a clockwise spiral, on one line. The second one (face b) is on the underside of the foot: it is arranged in a clockwise spiral, on one line. On both faces the text has been highlighted with white painting in modern times to make it more legible.
Text condition: incomplete text_condition, partly_legible
Letter heights: : 4mm; : 8-9mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Segesta
Provenance found: Accidentally found by a local shepherd in the excavations area and attributed (Voza 1966, p.218, n.7) to the Segesta 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 , 54361
Autopsy: Mignosa 2021-12-15
Map

Date

500—480 BCE (500 BC – 480 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

2/15/2021