ISic020389: ISic020389

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: ISic020389
Language: Elymian
Text type: unknown
Object type: skyphos
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 2021 (IAS I, App.)

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of base of a black-glazed skyphos.
Object type: skyphos
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, dim: 5 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the base.
Text condition: complete
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Segesta
Provenance found: Found during the excavations 1989-1993 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: Segesta, Italy
Repository: Parco archeologico di Segesta , SG15819
Autopsy: No Autopsy; stored in the warehouse of the Parco Archeologico di Segesta
Map

Date

550—480 BCE (550 BC – 480 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

Double-headed axe (bipennis) sign recurrent as a mark throughout the ancient world. Agostiniani (1977, p.16). In the Elymian ceramics the sign is once painted as a decoration (see Ambrosini 1970, p.464). For a similar sign see also ISic020043-ISic020045, ISic020324, ISic020325.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. Le iscrizioni elime. Appendice 1978-2020, Quaderni del Parco Archeologico di Segesta. Monografie, 1 (Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2021), at 389

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

5/5/2022