ISic020390: ISic020390

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: ISic020390
Language: Elymian
Text type: unknown
Object type: ostrakon
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani 2021 (IAS I, App.)

Physical description

Support

Description: Ostrakon(?). Fragment of wall of a black-glazed vessel.
Object type: ostrakon
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 3.5 cm, dim: cm, width: 3 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the inner part of the wall.
Text condition: incomplete
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 , SG15814
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

Perhaps a different version of the double-headed axe (bipennis) sign. Bipennis on Elymian documents is e.g. in ISic020043-ISic020045, ISic020324, ISic020325. According to Agostiniani the fragment could be an ostrakon. See for other examples ISic020334 and ISic020386.

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 390

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

5/5/2022