ISic020474: ISic020474
- ID
- ISic020474
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- votive
- Object type
- kylix
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
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 concave underside of the foot.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in Gela, near the ruins of the Aragonese tower.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
550—450 BCE (so Arena on letters) (550 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
According to most scholars (cf. among others Arena, IGASM, no. 27; Dubois, IGDS, no. 135) this inscription testifies to the existence in Gela of the cult of the oecist Antiphamos, whose name is also known from the passage in Thucydides on the foundation of the apoikia (Thuc. 6.4.3).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Margherita Guarducci, «Note di epigrafia siceliota arcaica», Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 27–29, n.s. 11-13 (1951 1949): 103–16, at 107-109 fig. 3
- Dinu Adamesteanu, «Le iscrizioni false di Licata e di Gela», in Atti del terzo congresso internazionale di epigrafia greca e latina (Roma 4-8 settembre 1957) (Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 1959), 425–34, at 430-432 tav. L.1
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 278 no.53
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 135
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 278 no.53
- 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 27, pl. XI.2
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
- 6/12/2023