ISic020468: ISic020468

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Dubois (IGDS 1) ;
• Arena: φίγε̄ς (= θίγε̄ς).

Physical description

Support

Description

Foot of a black-glazed kylix.

Object type

kylix

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the underside of the foot.

Text condition

complete

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Gela

Provenance found

Found in Gela.

Map

Current location

Place

Gela, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela ,

Autopsy

No Autopsy

Date

Evidence

lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

ownership

commentary

The name Skytas may appear in another inscription on pottery from Gela, in which it is, however, partially integrated. The same formula occurs, although in the present tense and not in the imperative as in this case, in a funerary inscription from Thera: με θίνγανε (IG XII 3, 451). The formula is probably intended for potential thieves of the vessel, perhaps used in the case of particularly well-made items. It is also found in a well-known inscription from Cumae (DGE 786) hὸς δ’ ἄν με κλέψει, θυφλὸς ἔσται.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 148
• 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 21, pl.IX.1

Discussion

• E. Schwyzer, Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora (Leipzig, 1923), at 786

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

4/12/2021