ISic020463: ISic020463

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: ISic020463
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: dedication
Object type: skyphos

Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Arena (IGASM 2)

Physical description

Support

Description: Floor of a black-glazed skyphos (Attic).
Object type: skyphos
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: ceramic
Type > subtype: ceramic > unverified

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the outer surface of the floor.
Text condition: complete
Technique: scratched
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Gela
Provenance found: Found in Gela.
Map

Current location

Place: Gela, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela
Autopsy: No Autopsy

Date

525—500 BCE (so Arena on letters) (525 BC - 501 BC)

Evidence: lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

dedication

commentary

According to Arena, this could be either a singular dative of the name Ἀλκιμίδης or a plural nominative, thus referring to a clan of dedicators (cf. Ἡρακλεῖδαι). Agostiniani (1999), on the other hand, is inclined towards a feminine noun with an -αι ending typical of the Elymian texts found in Grotta Vanella, Segesta.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 15, pl. VII.1

Discussion

Luciano Agostiniani, «Eterogeneità e pertinenza nell’epigrafia arcaica di Gela», Kokalos 45 (1999): 427–48, at 432

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

4/9/2021