ISic020444: ISic020444
- ID
- ISic020444
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- artist inscription
- Object type
- plate
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1989 (IGASM I) ;
- Manni Piraino: [---]αγμα hο ϙορύνθιος
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rim sherd of a Corinthian plate of local manufacture.
- Object type
- plate
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations in Megara Iblea.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
626—600 BCE (so Arena on letters) (625 BC – 600 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The fragment, the rim of a plate of Corinthian style but of local production, bears a very well readable, though incomplete, text. The noun ϙορύνθιος has been interpreted by Gallavotti (1977) as the name of the vessell that could be related to the term κορυνθεύς, meaning 'basket' (cf. Hsch. s.v. κορυνθεύς). On the basis of this hypothesis Arena (1989) suggested the following reconstruction [το͂ δεῖνα δαίδ]αλμα hο ϙορύνθιος. The inscription would thus be an artist's signature or dedication with reference to the fineness of the artefact itself. The nature of the vessel, of Corinthian imitation, and the use of the word could suggest - as Arena has suggested - an allusion to the Corinthian matrix of the artefact.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1098
- G. Vallet et F. Villard, Mégara Hyblaea, vol. 4 (Paris, 1966), at vol.2, 176ff., fig.22, pl.196.1
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Koiné alfabetica fra Siracusa, Megara Iblea e Selinunte?», Kokalos 21 (1975): 121–53, at 137ff., pl. 29.1
- M.L. Lazzarini, Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica (Roma, 1976), at 280, 341
- C. Gallavotti, «Scritture della Sicilia ed altre epigrafi arcaiche», Helikon 17 (1977): 97–136, at 106ff.
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Megara e Selinunte, 1st ed., vol. 1 (Milano: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1989), at 14, fig.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Valentina Mignosa
- James Chartrand
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 3/24/2021