ISic020323: ISic020323

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: ISic020323
Language: Elymian
Text type: unknown
Object type: cup
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 1977 (IAS I)

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragments of foot and base of a black-glaze cup.
Object type: cup
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragments
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text consists of two inscriptions, arranged on two different parts of the same object. The first one (fragment a) is on the underside of the foot: it is arranged in a clockwise spiral, on two lines. The second one (fragment b) is on the bottom of the interior of the cup and is arranged following a linear pattern on four lines.

Text condition

incomplete text_condition, legible

Lettering

Types list:

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

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 ,
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

500—480 BCE (500 BC – 480 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Vincenzo Tusa, «Nuovi frammenti di ceramica con graffiti da Segesta», Kokalos 12 (1966): 207–20, at no.47
O. Parlangèli, «Osservazioni sulla lingua dei graffiti segestani», Kokalos 13 (1967): 19–29, at 22, 27, 28
R. Ambrosini, «Italica o anatolica la lingua dei graffiti segestani?», Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968): 160–72, at 164, 165, 169-170
R. Ambrosini, «A proposito di una recente pubblicazione sulla lingua dei graffiti di Segesta», Studi e Saggi Linguistici 10 (1970): 232–37, at 235
Michel Lejeune, « Observations sur l’épigraphie élyme », Revue des études latines 47 (1970): 133‑83, at 141, 148-149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 156, 160, 161, 162, 170ss., 174ss.
Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. I. Le iscrizioni elime (Firenze, 1977), at 323

Discussion

Simona Marchesini, ‘The Elymian Language’, in Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 95–114, at 99

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

4/24/2025