ISic020451: ISic020451

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: ISic020451
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: gift, private document
Object type: Corinthian alabastron
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Arena 1989 (IGASM I)

Physical description

Support

Description: Corinthian alabastron.
Object type: Corinthian alabastron
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
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Provenance

Place of origin: unknown
Provenance found: unknown.

Current location

Place: , Italy
Repository: ,
Autopsy: No Autopsy

Date

7th — 6th century BCE (so Arena on letters) (700 BC – 500 BC)

Evidence: lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

gift, private document

commentary

As Lallies notes, the names Οἰνάνθη and Μητίχη recur in Athens as names of hetairai. The formula μ’ ἔδο̄κε reminds of the better known in the Sicyonian alphabet on the dinos of Villa Giulia with the signature of Exechias (https://www.museoetru.it/works/dinos-attico-a-figure-nere-di-exekias). Also in this case it is plausible to assume that the formula refers to the person who ordered the vase: Οἰνάνθη would have given the alabastron and the band (perhaps a breastband of the type used by young girls, see e.g. Anacreont.22.13) as a gift to another woman whose name (in dative case) is difficult to determine because of the gap in the middle of the text.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

3/30/2021