ISic020481: ISic020481

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Arena (IGASM 2)

Physical description

Support

Description

Black-glazed skyphos (Attic).

Object type

skyphos

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragments

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the floor of the vessel, perhaps arranged κυκληδόν.

Text condition

incomplete

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

If the inscription is to be read anti-clockwise, as if it were arranged in a circular way, Arena proposes to integrate it as Γοργε[ῖος κόρ]υφος, variation of the Homeric Γοργείη κεφαλή ('the head of the Gorgon', Il. 5.741; Od. 11.634).

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1360
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0863
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 145
• 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 34, pl. XIII.3

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

4/13/2021