ISic020449: ISic020449
This inscription is deprecated. Valentina Mignosa deprecated the file in favour of ISic020600 as this text is mentioned twice by Arena (see Arena IGASM 1, 75, fig. 13; Arena IGASM 5, 95) but it is actually one insription. View inscription ISic020600
- ID
- ISic020449
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- skyphos
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1989 (IGASM I)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Skyphos.
- Object type
- skyphos
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscription is placed on the base of the skyphos.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in the area of Siracusa.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
500—450 BCE (so Arena on letters) (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The dedication is written in an alphabet aberrant to the context of Syracuse, in which it was found. According to Jeffery (1961), the alphabet is of the Megarian type, which she explains by suggesting that those (the pacheis) transported by Gelon to Syracuse from Megara Hyblaea had made a dedication using, for reasons she does not further investigate, the alphabet of the mother country. According to Guarducci (1959-1960), on the other hand, the alphabet would undoubtedly be Corinthian and could easily be explained by the presence of Corinthians or Corcyraeans in Syracuse around the fifth century.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Margherita Guarducci, «Nuove note di epigrafia siceliota arcaica», Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 21–22 (1960 1959): 249–78, at 250ff., fig. 2
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.30
- 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 75, fig. 13
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.30
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
- 9/15/2022