ISic020400: ISic020400

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: ISic020400
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: unknown
Object type: cup
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after photograph.

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of foot of a black-glazed cup.
Object type: cup
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 6.7 cm, dim: cm, width: 3 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the foot.
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 , SG15827
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

According to Agostiniani (2021, p. 18) the first letter (or sign) is perhaps a sigma with 5 strokes, well attested in the graffiti from Grotta Vanella; the second letter a lambda, perhaps the Attic numeral for '5'; the third one a vertical stroke, perhaps the Attic numeral for '1'.

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 400

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

5/5/2022